Re: [PATCH] x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPL

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 12:26:07 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> uhm, why is this even a question? All of this stuff is so deep inside
> the guts of the kernel ... so nope - if then we want to change the
> others to _GPL exports as well, just to make sure nobody gets funny
> ideas.

pv_lock_ops gets accessed by inline functions which get inlined into
modules. They should never directly access it, but the generated code
will. _spin_lock() is in exactly the same situation.

J

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