From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: kumar.gala@freescale.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
greg@kroah.com, akpm@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:44:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE8F347.9060104@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106012340.14237.arnd@arndb.de>
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> For an ioctl, please follow the normal pattern of defining a separate
> structure for each case, no union.
>
> You can use a void __user * in the common ioctl function, and pass that
> to the typed argument list in the specific functions.
I have a GPL question. This header file is currently licensed under the GPL v2
only. Does that mean that any application that includes this header file so
that it can talk to the driver/hypervisor also needs to be licensed under the GPL?
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-03 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-01 18:35 [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Timur Tabi
2011-06-01 19:46 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-01 20:24 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-01 20:34 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-01 20:54 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-01 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-01 21:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-01 22:24 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-03 15:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-03 16:22 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-06 15:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-06 18:15 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-06 19:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-02 21:28 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-03 15:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-03 15:28 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-06 15:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-06 15:48 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-06 16:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-06 16:09 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-06 16:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-06 16:27 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-06 21:01 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-06-06 21:23 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-06 23:04 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-06-07 7:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-07 16:49 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-06-07 19:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-07 19:20 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-07 19:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-03 14:44 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2011-06-03 15:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
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