From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751969AbdCHJ0L (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 04:26:11 -0500 Received: from mail-pf0-f194.google.com ([209.85.192.194]:33568 "EHLO mail-pf0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751687AbdCHJ0I (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 04:26:08 -0500 From: john.hubbard@gmail.com X-Google-Original-From: jhubbard@nvidia.com To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Hubbard Subject: [PATCH 0/1] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 01:25:48 -0800 Message-Id: <20170308092549.28982-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.12.0 X-NVConfidentiality: public Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: John Hubbard 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