From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550BEC8301B for ; Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCD6222C2 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388038AbgK1VtT (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Nov 2020 16:49:19 -0500 Received: from mail-lj1-f196.google.com ([209.85.208.196]:39734 "EHLO mail-lj1-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387547AbgK1TaS (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Nov 2020 14:30:18 -0500 Received: by mail-lj1-f196.google.com with SMTP id o24so10115232ljj.6; Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:30:02 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=jwkQXnv7ZyII/fGbCnZTZmAtdZL9K4+A6kNTmn7lIDc=; b=crHyVfgtUCnYKhp7VfFV9UHX1fvAspZgiwR4BPQaegDhs2FJ6VtKE4M8JfepJc/XW1 lP+AzbgtoeVabPWxssFHPVoc3hMNr8m04koFYp1bcVbf/L3mA2sPXoG8RcQBlgXjJqTa scVCw2kGU3Yu6m8tpTLUgIA+7De9uoQC1yXLPNNz6HHbQpFnf1ZanvlIBdVOp3b7lyKX aQr+isHa9z1uJNJo1o3buXPtAGcxAnnxnwVh6kzLEgdgPg3ZFk4dnIDFRQqcFhAF6Vxw 8ItBx2tlSDrlOXSJrymJ2VaOaO9nyIGlomDon+Aawq7S/rSp4UzUJPPBnqzm7023Mxx9 aTsw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5338fnZaLrNvNXvNSXdRD8TBXlPiKmy+bxVrOXpfRmhwrc4uvcl7 bVdHKFMr1zHS9d+2vJx5tHO6IMIB67g= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyZz60kIEBhl7zZpRtZYCgDK0CEzNXaB5CG6FPXgHFASauifGdreGpG2MQPaJT6uMJ37PI/6A== X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:4009:: with SMTP id v9mr12541669ejj.97.1606563708621; Sat, 28 Nov 2020 03:41:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from kozik-lap (adsl-84-226-167-205.adslplus.ch. [84.226.167.205]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id i7sm659288edr.61.2020.11.28.03.41.46 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 28 Nov 2020 03:41:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:41:45 +0100 From: Krzysztof Kozlowski To: Lad Prabhakar Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , Philipp Zabel , Jiri Kosina , Mark Brown , linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Prabhakar Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Export symbols as GPL Message-ID: <20201128114145.GE4761@kozik-lap> References: <20201126191146.8753-1-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> <20201126191146.8753-6-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201126191146.8753-6-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 07:11:46PM +0000, Lad Prabhakar wrote: > Renesas RPC-IF driver is licensed under GPL2.0, to be in sync export the > symbols as GPL. It's not a valid reason to export them as GPL. Entire Linux source code is licensed as GPL-2.0, so are you going to change all EXPORT_SYMBOL to GPL? Please describe it better. Usually the symbols are exported as GPL if they are considered tightly coupled with the kernel code. So tightly that basically it is not a interface anymore but part of kernel internals and therefore any usage of it is a derivative work of Linux kernel. If this is the case here, please describe in commit msg why these match this criteria. Best regards, Krzysztof