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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> | 2005-05-01 08:59:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-01 08:59:03 -0700 |
| commit | 66cf8f1443301a1d5bc9c21709e4264e6919a3e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 2acfef65040c2fab1099b04f747921df600b4080 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | f246315e1ab96c40978777d1e159820ecca45aa8 (diff) | |
[PATCH] kernel/rcupdate.c: make the exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
The gpl exports need to be put back. Moving them to GPL -- but in a
measured manner, as I proposed on this list some months ago -- is fine.
Changing these particular exports precipitously is most definitely -not-
fine. Here is my earlier proposal:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110520930301813&w=2
See below for a patch that puts the exports back, along with an updated
version of my earlier patch that starts the process of moving them to GPL.
I will also be following this message with RFC patches that introduce two
(EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) interfaces to replace synchronize_kernel(), which then
becomes deprecated.
Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 56627c1546d..d3c52dd24a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -48,3 +48,18 @@ When: April 2005 Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method vecors. Who: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL +When: April 2006 +Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c +Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even + vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx, + VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary + drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two + are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes. + So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow + people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware + of, to adjust to this upcoming change. +Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> |