From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263078AbVAFWnu (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:43:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261178AbVAFWlf (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:41:35 -0500 Received: from gprs215-35.eurotel.cz ([160.218.215.35]:14728 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263173AbVAFWgT (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:36:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:34:59 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Petr Vandrovec Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Andrew Morton , Takashi Iwai , ak@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, rlrevell@joe-job.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, gordon.jin@intel.com, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat Message-ID: <20050106223458.GA2766@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20041215065650.GM27225@wotan.suse.de> <20041217014345.GA11926@mellanox.co.il> <20050103011113.6f6c8f44.akpm@osdl.org> <20050105144043.GB19434@mellanox.co.il> <20050105133448.59345b04.akpm@osdl.org> <20050106140636.GE25629@mellanox.co.il> <20050106145356.GA18725@infradead.org> <20050106163559.GG5772@vana.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050106163559.GG5772@vana.vc.cvut.cz> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > > It should be, unless there's some problem. In maybe a week or so. > > > > > > To make life bearable for out-of kernel modules, the following patch > > > adds 2 macros so that existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat > > > can be easily detected. > > > > That's not the way we're making additions. Get your code merged and > > there won't be any need to detect the feature. > > When Greg made sysfs GPL only, I've asked whether it is possible to merge > vmmon/vmnet in (and changing its license, of course). Answer on LKML was > quite clear: no, you are not interested in having vmmon/vmnet in Linux > kernel as you do not believe that they are usable for anything else > than VMware. What about 1) Put vmmon/vmnet under GPL 2) Find some GPL user of vmmon/vmnet 3) Merge should be doable now Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!