From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 04/10] VMCI: device driver implementaton. Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:03:20 -0700 Message-ID: <20121025210320.GA12352@kroah.com> References: <20121025203148.GA28096@kroah.com> <280263520.16961242.1351197830586.JavaMail.root@vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <280263520.16961242.1351197830586.JavaMail.root@vmware.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Bhavesh Davda Cc: Andy King , pv-drivers@vmware.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, vm-crosstalk@vmware.com, George Zhang List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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.