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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: tim.gardner@canonical.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.2-rc5] workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:05:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150804180520.GE17598@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438709164-3645-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com>

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:26:04AM -0600, tim.gardner@canonical.com wrote:
> From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
> 
> Commit 37b1ef31a568fc02e53587620226e5f3c66454c8 ("workqueue: move
> flush_scheduled_work() to workqueue.h") moved the exported non GPL
> flush_scheduled_work() from a function to an inline wrapper.
> Unfortunately, it directly calls flush_workqueue() which is a GPL function.
> This has the effect of changing the licensing requirement for this function
> and makes it unavailable to non GPL modules.
> 
> See commit ad7b1f841f8a54c6d61ff181451f55b68175e15a ("workqueue: Make
> schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules") for precedent.
> 
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>

Applied to wq/for-4.3.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-04 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-04 17:26 tim.gardner
2015-08-04 18:05 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2015-09-03  9:20   ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2015-09-03 16:14 ` Tejun Heo
2015-08-05  9:52 David Laight

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