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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	bhelgaas@google.com, 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: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:23:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171123132300.GA10736@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171122230335.GA1228@nvidia.com>

> 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.

And the anser in the previous mail was pretty clear: no.  And while
we're at it go talk to your lawyers again that you don't have a derived
work, because I suspect you do with such intimate entangling.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-23 13:23 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
2017-11-23 13:23     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-11-25  7:37       ` Neo Jia
2017-11-25 15:33         ` David Woodhouse

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