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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Change pci_enable_sriov, pci_disable_sriov and
 pci_reset_function to non-GPL symbol.
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:10:58AM -0800, Neo Jia wrote:
> This will allow proprietary linux drivers to adopt SR-IOV spec from
> PCI-SIG, also switch pci_reset_function to non-GPL symbol as it mainly
> does pci config space access per spec.

Clear NAK.  Thos were added intentional, and even if they were changed
your driver would still be a derived work and had to be published under
a GPLv2-compatible license.