Re: Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 02 2010 - 22:16:19 EST


On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:32:20PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:15:09AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_device);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_device);
>>>
>>
>> No, sorry, [...] I can not, and will not, make this change.
>>
>
>
> Derek,
>
> Consider writing a GPL wrapper module.

Ah, the old "GPL condom" try. Sorry, but this has been tried many times
in the past, and have been shut down every time. See the Samba history
of this for lots of details as to why this does not work.

good luck,

greg k-h
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