Re: [PATCH] x86: export 'pcibios_enabled'

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Mar 14 2012 - 05:28:40 EST


> >
> > int pcibios_enabled;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pcibios_enabled);
> >
> > /* According to the BIOS specification at:
> > * http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/specs/bios21.pdf, we could
>
> I would think this should be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()... this seems like a
> symbol with a very high likelihood to be abused in strange ways.

We don't need to expose it anyway

uvesafb could look for any PCI vga class device - which I suspect is
what it *should* be doing ?

Alan
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