Re: [PATCH V2] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jun 11 2010 - 00:21:00 EST


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:58:37PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
> On Thursday 10 June 2010 10:27:36 am Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(uiommu_fdget);
> >
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> > .. snip
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(uiommu_put);
> >
> > ditto.
> >
>
> Is there a definitive explanation somewhere of when to use each?

For a driver like this, that is very tied to the way that the kernel
works, I would recommend the _GPL marking, like the UIO interface has.

But that's just me. :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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