From: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>
To: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"pv-drivers@vmware.com" <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Pankaj Thakkar <pthakkar@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 19:03:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C807719A.2E910%scofeldm@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89E2752CFA8EC044846EB8499819134102AF2896F5@EXCH-MBX-4.vmware.com>
On 5/5/10 10:29 AM, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@vmware.com> wrote:
> It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under GPL.
> The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the
> plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel
> modules.
On 5/5/10 3:05 PM, "Shreyas Bhatewara" <sbhatewara@vmware.com> wrote:
> The plugin image is not linked against Linux kernel. It is OS agnostic infact
> (Eg. same plugin works for Linux and Windows VMs)
Are there any issues with injecting the GPL-licensed plug-in into the
Windows vmxnet3 NDIS driver?
-scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-06 2:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 23:02 RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 0:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 0:18 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 0:32 ` David Miller
2010-05-05 0:38 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 2:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 0:58 ` Chris Wright
2010-05-05 19:00 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 17:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:29 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 17:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 17:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:47 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 20:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 21:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 22:05 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 2:03 ` Scott Feldman [this message]
2010-05-06 7:25 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 7:25 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 8:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-05-06 18:04 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-06 20:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 20:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-06 20:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-13 3:06 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-13 5:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-14 0:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-14 9:49 ` Greg KH
2010-07-14 17:18 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-07-14 17:54 ` David Miller
2010-07-14 18:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-14 20:20 ` Greg KH
2010-07-14 17:19 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 20:42 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 21:06 ` Greg KH
2010-05-05 17:59 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-05 19:44 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-06 8:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-10 20:46 ` Pankaj Thakkar
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