From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Cc: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>,
pv-drivers@vmware.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
vm-crosstalk@vmware.com, George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 04/10] VMCI: device driver implementaton.
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:03:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121025210320.GA12352@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <280263520.16961242.1351197830586.JavaMail.root@vmware.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-16 0:27 [PATCH 00/10] VMCI for Linux upstreaming George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:28 ` [PATCH 01/10] VMCI: context implementation George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:28 ` [PATCH 02/10] VMCI: datagram implementation George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:28 ` [PATCH 03/10] VMCI: doorbell implementation George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:28 ` [PATCH 04/10] VMCI: device driver implementaton George Zhang
2012-10-25 19:28 ` Greg KH
2012-10-25 20:16 ` [Pv-drivers] " Andy King
2012-10-25 20:31 ` Greg KH
2012-10-25 20:43 ` Bhavesh Davda
2012-10-25 21:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-10-25 21:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-25 20:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-25 21:04 ` Greg KH
2012-10-25 21:13 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-25 21:18 ` Bhavesh Davda
2012-10-25 21:08 ` Andy King
2012-10-26 20:02 ` Andy King
2012-10-26 20:11 ` Greg KH
2012-10-16 0:28 ` [PATCH 05/10] VMCI: event handling implementation George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:29 ` [PATCH 06/10] VMCI: handle array implementation George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:29 ` [PATCH 07/10] VMCI: queue pairs implementation George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:29 ` [PATCH 08/10] VMCI: resource object implementation George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:29 ` [PATCH 09/10] VMCI: routing implementation George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:29 ` [PATCH 10/10] VMCI: Some header and config files George Zhang
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