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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/13] vfio/mdev: Remove vfio_mdev.c
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 09:53:21AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> The Linux standard is one patch one change. It is inapporiate for me
> to backdoor sneak revert the VFIO communities past decisions on
> licensing inside some unrelated cleanup patch.

That's not what you are doing.  You are removing weird condom code
that could never work, and remove the sneak attempt of an nvidia employee
to create a derived work that has no legal standing.

> Otherwise this patch changes nothing - what existed today continues to
> exist, and nothing new is being allowed.

No, it changes the existing exports, which is a complete no-go.