Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 04/10] VMCI: device driver implementaton.

Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-25T21:23:55Z

On Thursday, October 25, 2012 02:03:20 PM Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:43:50PM -0700, Bhavesh Davda wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > > You can't just say "general GPL issues aside". Honestly, given your
> > > company's prior actions in regards to Linux kernel drivers and the
> > > licenses of them, I don't trust them at all. To help gain that trust
> > > back, marking the exports in this manner will be a great improvement.
> >
> > You don't expect us to just let that comment slide :) Can you be more
> > specific about which "prior actions" in regards to which kernel
> > drivers, and when?
>
> For many many years, you shipped closed source Linux kernel drivers for
> your products. Only recently has this changed.

That was in the past. As far as I know our Linux drivers have been open
for more than 5 years, so not that recently.

Thanks,
Dmitry