From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:23:54 -0800 Message-ID: <20071201202354.672aed18@freepuppy.rosehill> References: <47515D39.9030900@rtr.ca> <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill> <20071201163035.321fd554@freepuppy.rosehill> <475227B1.2060802@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org To: Mark Lord Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:57178 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753519AbXLBEYo (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:24:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <475227B1.2060802@rtr.ca> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:34:09 -0500 Mark Lord wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:17:36 -0800 > > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > >> Then init_net needs to be not GPL limited. Sorry, we need to allow > >> non GPL network drivers. There is a fine line between keeping the > >> binary seething masses from accessing random kernel functions, and allowing > >> reasonable (but still non GPL) things like ndiswrapper to use network > >> device interface. > >> > > I spoke too soon earlier, ndiswrapper builds and loads against current > > 2.6.24-rc3. Vmware and proprietary VPN software probably do not. Once again I don't > > give a damn, but the enterprise distro vendors certainly care. > ... > > Naw, enterprise (or any other) distro vendors shouldn't have any issues here, > since they can just patch their kernels around any issues. > > But it looks like Eric has this one thought out well enough. So you are saying all this is not a problem, fine. Any affected parties can certainly lobby for themselves. But I suspect they all think the kernel community is a bunch of ... and will just ignore the problem. -- Stephen Hemminger