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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> | 2006-06-23 05:05:51 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-23 10:43:07 -0400 |
commit | d83015b8f62ee3fcd338f6f009051ed57f77a531 (patch) | |
tree | 11e30548e6b07045f8a17aa4661e1cde6f374b18 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
parent | 55f4e8d156d23709739029afb108932ef94cac94 (diff) |
[PATCH] Make RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules
Remove synchronize_kernel() (deprecated 2-APR-2005 in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/11) and makes the RCU API inaccessible to
non-GPL Linux kernel modules (as was announced more than one year ago in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/8). Tested on x86 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <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, 0 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index f7293297f326..027285d0c26c 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |||
@@ -33,21 +33,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | |||
33 | 33 | ||
34 | --------------------------- | 34 | --------------------------- |
35 | 35 | ||
36 | What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL | ||
37 | When: April 2006 | ||
38 | Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c | ||
39 | Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even | ||
40 | vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx, | ||
41 | VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary | ||
42 | drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two | ||
43 | are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes. | ||
44 | So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow | ||
45 | people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware | ||
46 | of, to adjust to this upcoming change. | ||
47 | Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> | ||
48 | |||
49 | --------------------------- | ||
50 | |||
51 | What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN | 36 | What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN |
52 | When: November 2006 | 37 | When: November 2006 |
53 | Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is | 38 | Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is |