Re: [RFC PATCH] crc generation fix for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

[Ram Pai]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:31 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:15 -0800, Ram Pai wrote:
> > Currently genksym does not take into account the GPLness of the exported
> > symbol while generating the crc for the exported symbol. Any symbol
> > changes from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL would not reflect in the
> > Module.symvers file.  This patch fixes that problem.
> 
> and this is a problem.. why?

Tools that depend on Module.symvers wont be able to detect the change in
GPLness of the exported symbols.

Eventually we want to generate a tool that can report API changes across
kernel releases and put it in some friendly(docbook) format.

Suggestions?
RP


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