From: Al Viro <viro@ftp•linux.org.uk>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl•org>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us•ibm.com>,
davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] in-kernel sockets API
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 01:56:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060808005619.GN29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060807162033.3685924e@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:20:33PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Please consider EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL because this interface would be a obvious
> target for binary modules writers to use.
As opposed to duplicating it? WTFPoint of restriction that is trivial to
bypass? Look at those functions; there's nothing that couldn't be
immediately open-coded in a binary module and use of _GPL doesn't serve
any purpose.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-08 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-07 23:00 [PATCH RESEND 1/2] in-kernel sockets API Sridhar Samudrala
2006-08-07 23:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-08 0:46 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2006-08-08 0:56 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-08-08 1:50 ` David Miller
2006-08-08 3:58 ` David Miller
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