Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> But my point is that if you patch everything in the paravirt_ops struct, 
>> no module other than the paravirt_ops backend code needs paravirt_ops 
>> access, so paravirt_ops can still be GPL only.  The problem is you would 
>> need to patch everything.
>
> Oh, I see what you mean, yes.  There was some discussion of that,
> basically run through generic patch, then ->patch() or some such.

There is another solution.  You can simply make the users of paravirt_ops
that aren't important enough to patch static functions in the kernel.

That plus the removal from the callers that always get patched should
make the GPL export safe.

Eric
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