On Thursday, October 25, 2012 01:31:48 PM Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:16:00PM -0700, Andy King wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmci_device_get); > > > > > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() for this, and all other exports? > > > > We'd prefer to leave them as vanilla exports. While we're committed > > to open-sourcing everything, including our non-upstreamed drivers, > > we don't really have a strong opinion regarding consuming our exports > > in closed-source (general GPL issues aside). > > 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.
Huh? What are the concerns exactly? I do not really see difference between EXPORT_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). The code either derivative of the kernel or it is not and so it either falls under the kernel license or not. >From out perspective we do not really care what other code might use VMCI, all our Linux drivers, even if not all are upstream [yet], are GPL. Thanks, Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
