Re: [PATCH 3/8] FMC: add core bus driver

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Juan David Gonzalez Cobas <juan.david.gonzalez.cobas@cern.ch>
Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cota@braap.org,
	siglesias@igalia.com, rob@landley.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] FMC: add core bus driver
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:40:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130618174047.GA21738@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADDK0KdrVgmXN-TZw8E43JRNk5Wb_cfM6pUWaSxbJ49GU72cTg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:30:00AM +0200, Juan David Gonzalez Cobas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com> wrote:
> 
>     [...]
> 
>  
> 
>     Yes, it was intended. I don't think it's an issue for merging, but
>     I understand you've seen so many such undesired copy-paste errors.
> 
> 
> CERN policies favour GPLv3 as default open source license as a recommendation.
> The "GPLv2 or later" is, in effect, intentional.

Ok, thanks for verifying this.

>     >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(fmc_driver_unregister);
>     >
>     > Any specific reason these aren't EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()?
>     >
>     > Again, just have to ask.
> 
>     I think we want to allow for proprietary FMC drivers. I personally
>     don't feel this is a core kernel technology.  But I'll let David Cobas
>     expand on CERN policies, as I'm only a consultant.
> 
> 
> CERN policies (mostly recommendations) concern esp. the return of
> investment of taxpayer money to society. In view of the potential use
> cases of FMC, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL would better serve that
> purpose than merely allowing proprietary modules, so GPL exports
> are fine.

Great.

Alessandro, care to respin the patches that I didn't apply and resend
them so that I can?

thanks,

greg k-h