From: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 04/10] VMCI: device driver implementaton.
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:08:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <723255296.2652440.1351199329247.JavaMail.root@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121025203148.GA28096@kroah.com>
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.
>
> To insist otherwise is to only reinforce my doubts, and reduce my
> wanting to even review or accept this code at all. Sorry about that.
That's perfectly fair. In the interest of gaining back some of that
trust, we'll be more than happy to make the exports GPL. Expect a diff
in the next few days with that change along with any modifications
necessary after a sparse sanity check.
Thanks!
- Andy
PS I finally remembered to drop vm-crosstalk, so hopefully you won't
get anymore annoying bounces.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 21:08 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
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 [this message]
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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