Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modulestoo

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Apr 30 2007 11:50, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:28:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> 
>> Otherwise non GPL modules cannot even do basic operations
>> like disabling interrupts anymore, which would be excessive.
>> 
>> Longer term should split the single structure up into
>> internal and external symbols and not export the internal
>> ones at all.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
>
>Ingo was dead-set against this and I kinda agree. 

So would I, as unimportant as I am in that virtualization area.


Jan
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