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I must be misunderstanding, but isn’t that symbol access limitation entirely useless? If someone has the technical knowhow to develop a kernel patch set, they c
by vermilingua 6y ago
I must be misunderstanding, but isn’t that symbol access limitation entirely useless? If someone has the technical knowhow to develop a kernel patch set, they certainly have the capability to do so on a kernel they’ve recompiled without this limitation.
- cycloptic 6y agoThe purpose of it does not seem to be to stop anyone from ever doing this ever, but rather to discourage patch submitters from wasting upstream maintainer time with patches that can't be reviewed because they use one of these shim layers.
- gnu8 6y agoSure, anyone can do that and it is entirely fair to use the software that way privately. The barrier is that they can’t distribute the resulting modules because no one else will have a kernel that has been modified this way.
- vermilingua 6y agoRight of course, yours and the sibling comment explained it perfectly. Cheers.
- userbinator 6y agoYou can distribute the patch that undoes all this silliness too, which will also be GPL.