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| author | Mcgrof <anonymous.contributor@example.org> | 2013-08-01 17:02:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> | 2024-10-04 15:47:32 -0400 |
| commit | 4254d6dad708e42697e3efb18811fe0b7e1fb1a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 33cddcdd5c52cc22aeed877a53326d360620d53c | |
| parent | 01b510d0c1bc8812583fc6212e2845edf3a78454 (diff) | |
| download | backports-4254d6dad708e42697e3efb18811fe0b7e1fb1a5.tar.gz | |
Update Documentation/backports/hacking
| -rw-r--r-- | wiki/Documentation_backports_hacking.mediawiki | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/wiki/Documentation_backports_hacking.mediawiki b/wiki/Documentation_backports_hacking.mediawiki index 904ee28..df2efec 100644 --- a/wiki/Documentation_backports_hacking.mediawiki +++ b/wiki/Documentation_backports_hacking.mediawiki @@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ Linux kernel drivers to avoid excuses about the difficulty to support '''upstrea Linux kernel development while also supporting '''users on older kernels'''. To ensure the intent is respected currently all symbols that we do work on to backport are exported via '''EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()''' as we do work to backport them -for the supported kernels. By using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() we make it '''clear''' that +for the supported kernels. By using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() we make it '''clear''' through +the only current technical means we have that if you use the backported symbols your software '''is considered derivative works of the Linux kernel'''. |