AR6000 as modules

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Fri Sep 19 13:52:32 CEST 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Andy Green wrote:
|> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pnp_remove_card);
|
| Adding EXPORT_SYMBOL to the kernel and particulary other people's code
| is highly politically sensitive, since you're basically extending the
| territory non-GPL code can access.
|
| If this is a patch you intend to distribute in this form, please check
| beforehand on LKLM that this is acceptable. (And expect a hard time
| justifying it.)
|
| A considerably less problematic choice would be to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

At the moment it's more of an issue proving WLAN can work as modules at all.

Rest of the exports in there are merely EXPORT_SYMBOL(), I don't think
they will care on those grounds otherwise they would have done the _GPL
thing on the rest of it.

- -Andy
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