From: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas@tungstengraphics.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, airlied@linux.ie,
dri-devel@lists.sf.net,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
yinghai@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding kmap_atomic_prot_pfn
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:19:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49019307.6070207@tungstengraphics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081024083830.GB6734@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Thomas Hellström <thomas@tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Keith,
>>
>> What you actually are doing here is claiming copyright on code that
>> other people have written, and tighten the export restrictions.
>> kmap_atomic_prot_pfn() appeared long ago in drm git with identical
>> code and purpose, but with different authors, and iounmap_atomic is
>> identical to kunmap_atomic.
>>
>
>
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iomap_atomic_prot_pfn);
>>>
>
> you want to use this facility in a binary-only driver?
>
> Ingo
>
At this point I have no such use for it, no.
The original user was a MIT style licenced driver.
/Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-24 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-17 21:29 [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1 Dave Airlie
2008-10-17 22:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-18 2:10 ` Eric Anholt
2008-10-18 2:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-18 3:49 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-18 6:44 ` Corbin Simpson
2008-10-18 7:49 ` Eric Anholt
2008-10-19 17:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-20 4:17 ` Steven J Newbury
2008-10-20 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-20 20:04 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-18 9:11 ` Dave Airlie
2008-10-18 1:37 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-18 19:11 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-18 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-18 20:07 ` Thomas Hellström
2008-10-18 20:20 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-18 20:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-18 21:51 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-18 22:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-18 22:47 ` Jon Smirl
2008-10-18 22:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-19 0:38 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-19 1:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-19 1:15 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-20 10:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-19 4:14 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-19 6:41 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-19 17:53 ` io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1) Ingo Molnar
2008-10-19 18:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-19 19:07 ` Eric Anholt
2008-10-20 11:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-20 12:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-19 21:04 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-20 11:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-20 15:49 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-22 9:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-23 7:14 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-23 7:14 ` [PATCH] Add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device apertures Keith Packard
2008-10-23 7:14 ` [PATCH] [drm/i915] Use io-mapping interfaces instead of a variety of mapping kludges Keith Packard
2008-10-24 4:49 ` [PATCH] Add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device apertures Randy Dunlap
2008-10-24 6:26 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-23 8:05 ` io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1) Ingo Molnar
2008-10-23 15:39 ` Keith Packard
2008-11-03 7:00 ` Dave Airlie
2008-11-03 10:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-03 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-03 16:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-03 17:29 ` [git pull] IO mappings, #2 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-04 22:36 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-11-05 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-23 20:22 ` Adding kmap_atomic_prot_pfn (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1) Keith Packard
2008-10-23 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-23 21:03 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-23 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24 1:50 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24 2:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-24 5:37 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24 14:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24 15:45 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24 4:29 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24 6:22 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24 7:33 ` Adding kmap_atomic_prot_pfn Thomas Hellström
2008-10-24 8:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-24 9:19 ` Thomas Hellström [this message]
2008-10-24 9:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-24 11:04 ` Thomas Hellström
2008-10-24 15:48 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24 10:18 ` Thomas Hellström
2008-10-24 9:14 ` Adding kmap_atomic_prot_pfn (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1) Ingo Molnar
2008-10-24 3:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-20 10:10 ` io resources and cached mappings " Ingo Molnar
2008-10-19 4:28 ` [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1 Yinghai Lu
2008-10-19 3:14 ` Nick Piggin
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