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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, matthias.bgg@gmail.com, neil@brown.name,
	thirtythreeforty@gmail.com, christian@lkamp.de,
	nishadkamdar@gmail.com, ser.perschin@gmail.com,
	blogic@openwrt.org, jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Subject: Re: [stable] Deleting "mt7621-mmc" with "interesting" license?
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:51:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190815075132.GA30284@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190815071350.GB3906@amd>

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 09:13:50AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I realize that "interesting" license is not on a list of bugs suitable
> for -stable, but on the other hand, this tends to scare corporate
> lawyers... so perhaps we should remove the driver in -stable, too?
> 
> Upstream commit id is 441bf7332d55c4d34afae9ffc3bbec621093f4d1.
> 
> 4.19 has the problematic driver, 4.4 does not.

If a lawyer has issues with this, please just upgrade to the latest
kernel release :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-15  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-15  7:13 [stable] Deleting "mt7621-mmc" with "interesting" license? Pavel Machek
2019-08-15  7:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-08-15  7:59   ` Pavel Machek
2019-08-15  8:44     ` Greg KH
2019-08-15  8:56       ` Pavel Machek

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