From: john.hubbard@gmail.com
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 01:25:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170308092549.28982-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com> (raw)
From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Hi,
Say, I'm 99% sure that this was just an oversight, so
I'm sticking my neck out here and floating a patch to
Put Things Back. I'm hoping that there is not some
firm reason to GPL-protect the basic kref_get and
kref_put routines, because when designing some
recent new (open-source, yay!) device drivers, we relied
on this being available, even for MIT-licensed code.
John Hubbard (1):
refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status
lib/refcount.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--
2.12.0
next reply other threads:[~2017-03-08 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-08 9:25 john.hubbard [this message]
2017-03-08 9:25 ` [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status john.hubbard
2017-03-08 9:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08 9:53 ` John Hubbard
2017-03-08 16:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-08 9:48 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08 9:59 ` John Hubbard
2017-03-08 10:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-08 10:52 ` John Hubbard
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