From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>,
Tarun Gupta <targupta@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/13] vfio/mdev: Remove vfio_mdev.c
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:36:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIkCVnTFmTHiX3xn@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210428060703.GA4973@lst.de>
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 08:07:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 05:00:11PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Preserve VFIO's design of allowing mdev drivers to be !GPL by allowing the
> > three functions that replace this module for !GPL usage. This goes along
> > with the other 19 symbols that are already marked !GPL in VFIO.
>
> NAK. This was a sneak by Nvidia to try a GPL condom, and now that we
> remove that not working condom it does not mean core symbols can be
> just changed.
Agreed, these symbols should not be changed.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-28 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-26 20:00 [PATCH v2 00/13] Remove vfio_mdev.c, mdev_parent_ops and more Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] vfio/mdev: Remove CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 11:05 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-04-27 11:05 ` [Intel-gfx] " Cornelia Huck
2021-04-27 11:05 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] vfio/mdev: Allow the mdev_parent_ops to specify the device driver to bind Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 12:32 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-04-27 23:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-28 6:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-28 7:56 ` Dan Williams
2021-04-28 12:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-28 14:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-28 19:58 ` Dan Williams
2021-04-28 23:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-29 0:00 ` Dave Jiang
2021-05-26 0:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-26 1:42 ` Dan Williams
2021-05-27 11:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-27 14:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-27 15:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-29 6:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-04 9:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-04 11:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-28 6:44 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-28 14:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-28 14:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] vfio/mtty: Convert to use vfio_register_group_dev() Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] vfio/mdpy: " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] vfio/mbochs: " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] vfio/ap_ops: " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-04 14:42 ` Tony Krowiak
2021-05-04 16:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] vfio/ccw: " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 20:06 ` Eric Farman
2021-04-27 22:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-28 12:55 ` Eric Farman
2021-04-28 13:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-28 17:09 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-04-28 17:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-29 11:58 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-04-29 18:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-30 12:31 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-04-30 17:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-03 10:54 ` s390 common I/O layer locking (was: [PATCH v2 07/13] vfio/ccw: Convert to use vfio_register_group_dev()) Cornelia Huck
2021-05-04 15:10 ` s390 common I/O layer locking Vineeth Vijayan
2021-07-24 13:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-03 14:27 ` Vineeth Vijayan
2021-08-10 15:00 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] vfio/gvt: Convert to use vfio_register_group_dev() Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] vfio/mdev: Remove vfio_mdev.c Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-28 6:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-28 6:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-04-28 12:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-29 6:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-29 6:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-03 17:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-04 9:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-04 16:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] vfio/mdev: Remove mdev_parent_ops dev_attr_groups Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] vfio/mdev: Remove mdev_parent_ops Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] vfio/mdev: Use the driver core to create the 'remove' file Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-26 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] vfio/mdev: Remove mdev drvdata Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 21:30 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] Remove vfio_mdev.c, mdev_parent_ops and more Alex Williamson
2021-04-27 21:30 ` [Intel-gfx] " Alex Williamson
2021-04-27 21:30 ` Alex Williamson
2021-04-27 22:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 22:20 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 22:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-27 22:49 ` Alex Williamson
2021-04-27 22:49 ` [Intel-gfx] " Alex Williamson
2021-04-27 22:49 ` Alex Williamson
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