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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcupdate.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 56627c1546de..d3c52dd24a2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -48,3 +48,18 @@ When: April 2005 Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method vecors. Who: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL +When: April 2006 +Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c +Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even + vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx, + VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary + drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two + are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes. + So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow + people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware + of, to adjust to this upcoming change. +Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c index d00eded75d71..ad497722f04f 100644 --- a/kernel/rcupdate.c +++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c @@ -465,6 +465,6 @@ void synchronize_kernel(void) } module_param(maxbatch, int, 0); -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu); -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu_bh); -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_kernel); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_rcu); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */ +EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_rcu_bh); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */ +EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_kernel); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */ |