From: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
To: Omer Efrat <omer.efrat@tandemg.com>,
"backports@vger.kernel.org" <backports@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PCI MSI API support in backports
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 21:31:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5B071313.8060206@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HE1PR0202MB2954E60E8F7C06ED8EEEC5E59A6A0@HE1PR0202MB2954.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
On 5/24/2018 3:40 PM, Omer Efrat wrote:
> On 5/23/2018 3:21 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Well. I think what you are missing is a wireless driver in linux
>> upstream. We backport on a as-needed basis so the reason is probably
>> that none of the upstream drivers require the pci_alloc_irq_vectors()
>> function. So what wireless driver are we talking about here. Is it a
>> proprietary driver?
>
> Yes, we are talking about a proprietary driver.
> Does that mean I should just add pci_alloc_irq_vectors function myself and send it here as a patch?
You could, but I asked about your driver because the backports project
exports its symbols using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). This means that only
GPL-compatible drivers can use it. This has been a conscious decision
(see [1]).
Regards,
Arend
[1] https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/License
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-23 11:39 PCI MSI API support in backports Omer Efrat
2018-05-23 12:21 ` Arend van Spriel
2018-05-24 13:40 ` Omer Efrat
2018-05-24 19:31 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
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