Re: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08T10:16:04Z

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:25:49AM -0800, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
>
> Originally, kref_get and kref_put were available as
> standard routines that even non-GPL device drivers
> could use.

As I stated in my response to the 0/1 of this patch, this sentence is
not true, sorry, the inlined functions were GPL-v2-only.

thanks,

greg k-h