From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bhavesh Davda Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 04/10] VMCI: device driver implementaton. Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:43:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <280263520.16961242.1351197830586.JavaMail.root@vmware.com> References: <20121025203148.GA28096@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121025203148.GA28096@kroah.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: Greg KH 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 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? We certainly don't want the Linux kernel community, especially somebody as influential as you, to lack trust in VMware or our intentions.