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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>2006-06-23 05:05:51 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-23 10:43:07 -0400
commitd83015b8f62ee3fcd338f6f009051ed57f77a531 (patch)
tree11e30548e6b07045f8a17aa4661e1cde6f374b18 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
parent55f4e8d156d23709739029afb108932ef94cac94 (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>
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@@ -33,21 +33,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
33 33
34--------------------------- 34---------------------------
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36What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
37When: April 2006
38Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c
39Why: 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.
47Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
48
49---------------------------
50
51What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN 36What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
52When: November 2006 37When: November 2006
53Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is 38Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is