On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:55 +0930, Yuri Vilmanis wrote: > I believe that, in general, new functions which replace deprecated functions > which were exported as EXPORT_SYMBOL, should also be exported as > EXPORT_SYMBOL, not as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. The reason I say this is because > deprecation of old functions breaks old modules and drivers that use them, > and changing the level of GPL strictness of the function prevents these old > modules being updated and used with newer kernels. > > The case in point for me is ATI's binary openGL accelerated drivers (fglrx) - > these used inter_module_get() to communicate with the agp gart module,
except that the AGP gart module no longer uses inter_module_* > for > obvious reasons - this AGP communication is essential to the functionality of > the driver. this is thus non-obvious.. > The case of inter_module_get deprecation and replacement with symbol_get inter_module_get is absolutely not replaced by symbol_get. They are entirely different usages and only have a few letters in common in the name. - 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/
