On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 12:21:24AM -0800, Erik Gilling wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:59 PM, John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org> wrote: > >> Also, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() perhaps? > >> > >> And who is using these exports? > > > > > > From some quick git grepping... > > As John pointed out, the exynos and msm display and code uses them. I > know nvidia is working on adding suport to their tegra tree. My knee > jerk reaction is to make the export as permissible as possible. That > being said, all of the ARM SoC vendors I've worked with have GPL > kernel drivers even if their user space is closed. I'll reach out to > them and ask for their opinions. Are there any issues with keeping > them EXPORT_SYMBOL?
There's no "issues", it's just that it is preferred by some people and companies to add new symbols to the kernel in this manner. It's really up to you / Google as you are the ones contributing the code. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/