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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	alex.williamson@redhat.com, Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Change pci_enable_sriov, pci_disable_sriov and pci_reset_function to non-GPL symbol.
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 06:55:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171117145504.GA31760@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510773058-1482-1-git-send-email-cjia@nvidia.com>

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:10:58AM -0800, Neo Jia wrote:
> This will allow proprietary linux drivers to adopt SR-IOV spec from
> PCI-SIG, also switch pci_reset_function to non-GPL symbol as it mainly
> does pci config space access per spec.

Clear NAK.  Thos were added intentional, and even if they were changed
your driver would still be a derived work and had to be published under
a GPLv2-compatible license.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-17 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-15 19:10 [PATCH 1/1] Change pci_enable_sriov, pci_disable_sriov and pci_reset_function to non-GPL symbol Neo Jia
2017-11-17 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-11-22 23:03   ` Neo Jia
2017-11-23 13:23     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-25  7:37       ` Neo Jia
2017-11-25 15:33         ` David Woodhouse

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