From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753435AbbICJVJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2015 05:21:09 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.24]:55007 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752875AbbICJVH (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2015 05:21:07 -0400 From: Hans-Peter Jansen To: Tejun Heo Cc: tim.gardner@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.2-rc5] workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:20:54 +0200 Message-ID: <5012460.vcYIRW5pg5@xrated> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.4-4-desktop; KDE/4.14.10; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150804180520.GE17598@mtj.duckdns.org> References: <1438709164-3645-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com> <20150804180520.GE17598@mtj.duckdns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:+zeaturwTP41BgcQe5a/RjENJ8QVaRPVdJTpU+LF1YbMWa8XSAn DIF9PqXKab3KrYU73zU6F1qoBmg9EdbNwfgu7uRdO3xyoQ7oinVRw+aI1dUH//4+GdkboHZ 8CXlzoIO6opxKUM6bfbeYYxKbSp3LPLKTd6LddwUd/h743xiZNls6P0FJ27BEvryvUlmrVK 6QutHWjH3v35fzMI2eViw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:/a9idskY2v8=:XpDcTGE0kHlg5rgGZaDFVr ToiWN2k/2SJMbgryzUHDyo00UiTflA9qG3be5FLqN2Gf94RAbhwYCj50ECYAQ9d3XgwLdzg9R 89hZQ/0F8EjfinTlndeUGpx4RPKwv0NoylmzYktYVfAlXgXKkjHkkjN85Bc7NwGmeNYygnVKb 3NX8kJB256YkIGnz6G5UzYVa0TzFH3TG9giH75YBSHfHpHCV0GLQn3PGbW3/5BAKHYJpahYiQ hdINI7oXwsAiU2uqiCzicnjjEGUmUsqESUCsJbE2uiOn9yde4dNtSueeI3cX8OipZiBlRq1rY HBG0yvKsZ3z9jOI7dN4++NND1KTyc+7W7jDlvtr9PsHoF12fytg8W8mqqjpIajdYZsYyB9B15 d/CcOZzGUaW+ZjkoWXRIaNvZcvczLBAOBIt/ph6A38GWvWmuRSfBcz4NmUfO5okjPqVyWh3Qz rqWaFdgpwyTWNy/5tz+YvDAsyqtGLi66M9zoFSZ4BDymKz2mW+3+ea6CyX4NUZaECtGnPm8ko Mt9vynrm6SRW1mz8hA21J2BiFkf36tM5SOigkpvAGfgqNrezSRVZYBrjDyeNpo71r+aGWy53I m4GT1QmpA6DsjUHAlYF9HybGq8AkUoKyD1V5ODFkuzOoXwZwmppihCt3XByAYFngSu3BZ2+6S d2GxANIPPNTcRc0m7FvH4M4p4tzbhH/lgNx6xyYZ0otZTgE3lwNBEJgG/QoJ+xYKStL8cmTnU SG+lNzicpEHLs7Nb Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Dienstag, 4. August 2015 14:05:20 Tejun Heo wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:26:04AM -0600, tim.gardner@canonical.com wrote: > > From: Tim Gardner > > > > Commit 37b1ef31a568fc02e53587620226e5f3c66454c8 ("workqueue: move > > flush_scheduled_work() to workqueue.h") moved the exported non GPL > > flush_scheduled_work() from a function to an inline wrapper. > > Unfortunately, it directly calls flush_workqueue() which is a GPL > > function. > > This has the effect of changing the licensing requirement for this > > function > > and makes it unavailable to non GPL modules. > > > > See commit ad7b1f841f8a54c6d61ff181451f55b68175e15a ("workqueue: Make > > schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules") for precedent. > > > > Cc: Tejun Heo > > Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner > > Applied to wq/for-4.3. > > Thanks. Tejun, mind CCing stable in this regard? As things stand right now, it's activily deferring 4.2 rollout for (evil, sure) nvidia users like me. Thanks, Pete