From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
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: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:36:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIkCVnTFmTHiX3xn@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210428060703.GA4973@lst.de>
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 08:07:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 05:00:11PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Preserve VFIO's design of allowing mdev drivers to be !GPL by allowing the
> > three functions that replace this module for !GPL usage. This goes along
> > with the other 19 symbols that are already marked !GPL in VFIO.
>
> NAK. This was a sneak by Nvidia to try a GPL condom, and now that we
> remove that not working condom it does not mean core symbols can be
> just changed.
Agreed, these symbols should not be changed.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-28 6:36 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 [this message]
2021-04-28 12:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-29 6:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
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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