From d83015b8f62ee3fcd338f6f009051ed57f77a531 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:05:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Make RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules Remove synchronize_kernel() (deprecated 2-APR-2005 in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/11) and makes the RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules (as was announced more than one year ago in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/8). Tested on x86 and ppc64. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 1 - Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 15 --------------- 2 files changed, 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index 07cb93b82ba9..6e459420ee9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -790,7 +790,6 @@ RCU pointer update: RCU grace period: - synchronize_kernel (deprecated) synchronize_net synchronize_sched synchronize_rcu diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index f7293297f326..027285d0c26c 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -33,21 +33,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN When: November 2006 Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is -- cgit v1.2.3