From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
<john.hubbard@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 01:53:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <de2e08c1-5bb3-e62a-a624-d2db2a54e6cc@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170308095044.GC30552@kroah.com>
On 03/08/2017 01:50 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.
OK, got it. I overlooked that point.
thanks
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-08 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-08 9:25 [PATCH 0/1] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status john.hubbard
2017-03-08 9:25 ` [PATCH] " john.hubbard
2017-03-08 9:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08 9:53 ` John Hubbard [this message]
2017-03-08 16:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-08 9:48 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08 9:59 ` John Hubbard
2017-03-08 10:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08 10:52 ` John Hubbard
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