Re: [PATCH] altix: export sn_pcidev_info_get

[Christian Hildner]

Arjan van de Ven schrieb:

> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 20:47 -0600, Mark Maule wrote:
>  
>
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Mark Maule wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Export sn_pcidev_info_get.
> > > >        
> > > Tony or Andrew please back this out again.  The only reason SGI wants this is
> > > to support their illegal graphics driver, and no core code uses it.
> > >
> > > And Mark, please stop submitting such patches.
> > >      
> > All I'm doing by exporting sn_pcidev_info_get is allowing a module to use
> > the SGI SN_PCIDEV_BUSSOFT() macro which will tell a driver which piece of
> > altix PCI hw its device is sitting behind (e.g. PCIIO_ASIC_TYPE_TIOCP et. al).
> >
> > While I acknowledge that the gfx driver folks requested this, I don't
> > understand what is "illegal" about this export, or the driver which wants
> > to use it.  What am I missing here?
> >    
>
> so you would have no objection to making this a _GPL export ?
Hi Folks,

sn_* symbols are "their" symbols so I can't see any legitimation for 
anyone else to not let them export their symbols as they want. They are 
doing a great job on linux to make it run scalable on the biggest 
machines on earth. Or don't you like the idea of running Linux on those 
supercomputers?

Christian


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