From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:04:29 -0800 Message-ID: <20150119170429.GA13160@jeremy-HP> References: <20150115223157.GB25884@quack.suse.cz> <20150116165506.GA10856@samba2> <20150119071218.GA9747@jeremy-HP> <1421652849.2080.20.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: James Bottomley , Jeremy Allison , Jens Axboe , Volker Lendecke , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Milosz Tanski Return-path: Received: from fn.samba.org ([216.83.154.106]:50771 "EHLO mail.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751374AbbASREZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:04:25 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:34 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > That's one of these pointless licensing complexities that annoy > distributions so much ... they're both open source, so there's no real > problem except the licence incompatibility. The usual way out of it is > just to dual licence the incompatible component. Just one point here - we're not able to dual license Samba to go back to GPLv2 anything. There are too many contributors to this who have contributed under v3-or-later licensing in order for this to be possible for us. I'm hoping adding the 'or-later' clause to fio might be easier. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com (mail-pa0-f41.google.com [209.85.220.41]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB516B0032 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:04:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id rd3so39905117pab.0 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:04:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.samba.org (fn.samba.org. [2001:470:1f05:1a07::1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gt6si1127281pac.204.2015.01.19.09.04.25 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:04:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:04:29 -0800 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps Message-ID: <20150119170429.GA13160@jeremy-HP> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <20150115223157.GB25884@quack.suse.cz> <20150116165506.GA10856@samba2> <20150119071218.GA9747@jeremy-HP> <1421652849.2080.20.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Milosz Tanski Cc: James Bottomley , Jeremy Allison , Jens Axboe , Volker Lendecke , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:34 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > That's one of these pointless licensing complexities that annoy > distributions so much ... they're both open source, so there's no real > problem except the licence incompatibility. The usual way out of it is > just to dual licence the incompatible component. Just one point here - we're not able to dual license Samba to go back to GPLv2 anything. There are too many contributors to this who have contributed under v3-or-later licensing in order for this to be possible for us. I'm hoping adding the 'or-later' clause to fio might be easier. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org