| To: | Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Asynchronous crypto layer. |
| From: | James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:43:56 -0400 (EDT) |
| Cc: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, <cryptoapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <20041030092036.4f954d89@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > Also, please consider EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL. > > I'm not insisting, but why? The existing crypto API uses EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, and I would hope that extensions to it do the same. This area is contentious in general, but ultimately, I think we should document that these APIs are not intended to be used by proprietary modules to do things like plug into the kernel and extend it in proprietary ways. - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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