Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

Posted Feb 24, 2012 13:49 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Oracle offering DTrace for Linux by mathstuf
Parent article: Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

AFAIU, there are three cases here:

Not exported: For in-kernel use only; use is automatically GPLed
EXPORT_SYMBOL: For use in modules; just using it doesn't make your module GPLed
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL: For use in GPLed modules

If it wasn't exported, it's the first case; adding EXPORT_SYMBOL is shady.

Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

Posted Feb 24, 2012 21:14 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I would imagine if it still weren't exported today, there would be discussion of making it non-GPL enforcing export for merging. I imagine other symbols gained an EXPORT_SYMBOL after being unexported for a time. In any case, it seems a moot point since (apparently) the 0.2 version obeys the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.