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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-03-20 13:17:13 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-03-20 13:42:58 -0800 |
| commit | 9f28bb7e1d0188a993403ab39b774785892805e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 939660c2531335dc899cc66fa7f3f05aa343d1e0 /include/linux/module.h | |
| parent | 3fd6805f4dfb02bcfb5634972eabad0e790f119a (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9f28bb7e1d0188a993403ab39b774785892805e1.tar.gz lwn-9f28bb7e1d0188a993403ab39b774785892805e1.zip | |
[PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE()
This patch adds the ability to mark symbols that will be changed in the
future, so that kernel modules that don't include MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
and use the symbols, will be flagged and printed out to the system log.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/module.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/module.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index 84d75f3a8aca..a25d5f61548c 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -198,6 +198,9 @@ void *__symbol_get_gpl(const char *symbol); #define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym) \ __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl") +#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym) \ + __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl_future") + #endif struct module_ref @@ -255,6 +258,11 @@ struct module unsigned int num_gpl_syms; const unsigned long *gpl_crcs; + /* symbols that will be GPL-only in the near future. */ + const struct kernel_symbol *gpl_future_syms; + unsigned int num_gpl_future_syms; + const unsigned long *gpl_future_crcs; + /* Exception table */ unsigned int num_exentries; const struct exception_table_entry *extable; @@ -441,6 +449,7 @@ void module_remove_driver(struct device_driver *); #else /* !CONFIG_MODULES... */ #define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym) #define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym) +#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym) /* Given an address, look for it in the exception tables. */ static inline const struct exception_table_entry * |