On December 4, 2015 10:30:17 AM PST, Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:28:02AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Because making them GPL would prevent any non GPL driver from >> using MSRs with tracing compiled in, which doesn't make any sense. > >I know what EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL means - I'm questioning the need of >making >them available to non-GPL drivers.
How about this: it is easy too easy to hard code MSR accesses, and the last things we need is alien non-GPL drivers doing their own low-level hacks bypassing these facilities. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse brevity and formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
