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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Roman Kagan" <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	"Vitaly Kuznetsov" <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Denis V . Lunev" <den@openvz.org>,
	"Haiyang Zhang" <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] hyperv: move VMBus connection ids to uapi
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:02:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161221100247.69a4049b@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161221175836.GA8846@infradead.org>

On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:58:36 -0800
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:50:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Lastly, there is licensing issues on headers. It would be good to have any
> > userspace ABI headers licensed with a more liberal license so that BSD and DPDK drivers
> > could use them directly. Right now each one reinvents.  
> 
> Microsoft could easily solves this problem by offering a suitably
> liberally licensed header documenting the full HyperV guest protocol
> that Linux and other projects could use.

The issue is if same header file mixes kernel and userspace API stuff.

Once the files are arranged right, I will submit trivial change to comments
to indicate the liberal licensing of userspace API headers.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-21 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-20 15:55 [PATCH 00/15] hyperv: more stuff to uapi + cleanup Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 01/15] hyperv: consolidate TSC ref page definitions Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 20:57   ` KY Srinivasan
2016-12-21  6:25     ` Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: uapi-fy synic event flags definitions Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 17:24   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-12-21  6:33     ` Roman Kagan
2016-12-21 10:58   ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-21 18:58   ` KY Srinivasan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 03/15] hyperv: use standard bitops Roman Kagan
2016-12-21 12:00   ` Olaf Hering
2016-12-21 13:23     ` Roman Kagan
2016-12-22 12:33       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-12-21 19:08   ` KY Srinivasan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 04/15] hyperv: define VMBus message type Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 05/15] hyperv: GFP_ATOMIC -> GFP_KERNEL Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 06/15] hyperv: avoid unnecessary vmalloc Roman Kagan
2016-12-21 19:19   ` KY Srinivasan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 07/15] hyperv: dedup cpuid definitions Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 08/15] hyperv: dedup crash msr related definitions Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 09/15] hyperv: unify Hyper-V msr definitions Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 10/15] hyperv: uapi-fy PostMessage and SignalEvent hypercall structures Roman Kagan
2016-12-21 19:27   ` KY Srinivasan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 11/15] hyperv: uapi-fy monitored notification structures Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:55 ` [PATCH 12/15] hyperv: move VMBus connection ids to uapi Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 17:25   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-12-21  6:29     ` Roman Kagan
2016-12-21 12:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-21 12:59         ` Roman Kagan
2016-12-21 14:26           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-21 14:39             ` Roman Kagan
2016-12-21 15:39             ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-12-21 15:43               ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-21 17:25                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-12-21 17:50                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-12-21 17:53                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-12-21 17:58                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-21 18:02                     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-12-21 19:54                       ` KY Srinivasan
2016-12-28 17:09                         ` Roman Kagan
2016-12-29 18:29                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-02  8:19                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-09  8:32                             ` Roman Kagan
2017-01-09  8:40                               ` hpa
2017-01-09  8:58                                 ` Roman Kagan
2017-01-09  9:02                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-02 19:39                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-03  9:32                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-12-20 15:56 ` [PATCH 13/15] hyperv: move function close to its only callsite Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:56 ` [PATCH 14/15] hyperv_vmbus: drop unused definitions Roman Kagan
2016-12-20 15:56 ` [PATCH 15/15] hyperv: redefine hv_message without bitfields Roman Kagan
2016-12-21 18:00 ` [PATCH 00/15] hyperv: more stuff to uapi + cleanup KY Srinivasan
2016-12-28 16:57   ` Roman Kagan
2016-12-30 19:45     ` KY Srinivasan

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