Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols

From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:08:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204315713.2316.15.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802291151460.17889@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:53 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > 
> > I already know what USB folks will say.  They want proprietary drivers
> > to be in the userspace.  I doubt ndiswrapper will ever be ported to the
> > userspace.  It's much more likely that some other approach will be used.
> 
> If that's the case, then talk to the USB people. Maybe they are ok with 
> wrapping them in GPL wrappers. But it sounds like they would prefer the 
> stricter GPLONLY meaning (ie no ndiswrapper), and it's their code.

This still leaves us with the workqueue interface:

__create_workqueue_key
destroy_workqueue
flush_workqueue
queue_work

ndiswrapper has its own workqueue implementation, but it would be great
to avoid code duplication.

As for task_nice(), it's strange that task_nice() is GPLONLY, but
set_user_nice() is not.  Anyway, it can probably be worked around.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin