From: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>, <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Change pci_enable_sriov, pci_disable_sriov and pci_reset_function to non-GPL symbol.
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:03:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171122230335.GA1228@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171117145504.GA31760@infradead.org>
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 06:55:04AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
Hi Christoph,
Just to be clear, here the request is to allow proprietary driver continue
supporting Linux OS when adopting SR-IOV - a PCIE virtualization technology
standardized by PCI SIG.
Similar interfaces we have seen inside Linux kernels are pci_enable_msi,
pci_enable_misx_range, which allows proprietary to work when following a PCI SIG
standard.
Thanks,
Neo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-22 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-15 19:10 [PATCH 1/1] Change pci_enable_sriov, pci_disable_sriov and pci_reset_function to non-GPL symbol Neo Jia
2017-11-17 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-22 23:03 ` Neo Jia [this message]
2017-11-23 13:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-25 7:37 ` Neo Jia
2017-11-25 15:33 ` David Woodhouse
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