(+cc: devel@driverdev)
Hi Ben,

Ben Hutchings wrote:

> ZSMALLOC is tristate, but the code has no MODULE_LICENSE and since it
> depends on GPL-only symbols it cannot be loaded as a module.  This in
> turn breaks zram which now depends on it.  I assume it's meant to be
> Dual BSD/GPL like the other z-stuff.

Yep, the opening comment in the file says so.

> There is also no module_exit, which will make it impossible to unload.
> Add the appropriate module_init and module_exit declarations suggested
> by comments.
>
> Reported-by: Christian Ohm <[email protected]>

I sent a similar patch + fixup last week[*].  Yours has a clearer
description.  The only other difference aside from reordering lines is
that I marked zs_init as __init and zs_exit as __exit.

[...]
> This is compile-tested only.

Someone using zram tested last week's patch (which is almost
identical) against 3.4.y and let me know it worked by private email,
but I don't have permission to name that person.

So for what it's worth,
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>

Thanks.
Jonathan

[*] 
http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-June/027377.html



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