From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752464AbdCHJzS (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 04:55:18 -0500 Received: from hqemgate15.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.64]:17461 "EHLO hqemgate15.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752410AbdCHJzH (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 04:55:07 -0500 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqpgpgate101.nvidia.com on Wed, 08 Mar 2017 01:55:05 -0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , References: <20170308092549.28982-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com> <20170308092549.28982-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com> <20170308095044.GC30552@kroah.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , X-Nvconfidentiality: public From: John Hubbard Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 01:53:48 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170308095044.GC30552@kroah.com> X-Originating-IP: [10.2.166.22] X-ClientProxiedBy: DRHQMAIL108.nvidia.com (10.27.9.25) To HQMAIL107.nvidia.com (172.20.187.13) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/08/2017 01:50 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:25:49AM -0800, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote: >> From: John Hubbard >> >> Originally, kref_get and kref_put were available as >> standard routines that even non-GPL device drivers >> could use. > > As I stated in my response to the 0/1 of this patch, this sentence is > not true, sorry, the inlined functions were GPL-v2-only. OK, got it. I overlooked that point. thanks John Hubbard NVIDIA > > thanks, > > greg k-h >