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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
	Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>,
	Tarun Gupta <targupta@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/13] vfio/mdev: Remove vfio_mdev.c
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:53:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210429065315.GC2882@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210428125321.GP1370958@nvidia.com>

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 09:53:21AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> The Linux standard is one patch one change. It is inapporiate for me
> to backdoor sneak revert the VFIO communities past decisions on
> licensing inside some unrelated cleanup patch.

That's not what you are doing.  You are removing weird condom code
that could never work, and remove the sneak attempt of an nvidia employee
to create a derived work that has no legal standing.

> Otherwise this patch changes nothing - what existed today continues to
> exist, and nothing new is being allowed.

No, it changes the existing exports, which is a complete no-go.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-29  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-26 20:00 [PATCH v2 00/13] Remove vfio_mdev.c, mdev_parent_ops and more Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] vfio/mdev: Remove CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 11:05   ` Cornelia Huck
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] vfio/mdev: Remove vfio_mdev.c Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-28  6:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-28  6:36     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-28 12:53       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-29  6:53         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-04-29  6:56           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-03 17:32             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-04  9:38               ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-04 16:20                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] vfio/mdev: Remove mdev_parent_ops Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 21:30 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] Remove vfio_mdev.c, mdev_parent_ops and more Alex Williamson
2021-04-27 22:20   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 22:49     ` Alex Williamson

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