From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752934Ab0EFCD6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 22:03:58 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-4.cisco.com ([171.68.10.86]:60518 "EHLO sj-iport-4.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751040Ab0EFCD5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 22:03:57 -0400 Authentication-Results: sj-iport-4.cisco.com; dkim=neutral (message not signed) header.i=none X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAObA4UurR7H+/2dsb2JhbACdYHGjNJlYhRMEgz4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,338,1270425600"; d="scan'208";a="125422350" User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.24.0.100205 Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 19:03:54 -0700 Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 From: Scott Feldman To: Shreyas Bhatewara , Arnd Bergmann , Dmitry Torokhov CC: Christoph Hellwig , "pv-drivers@vmware.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , Pankaj Thakkar Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Thread-Index: AcrsnXZHfCzcBb5GR+COtROFMlz8vwAAIsdgAAiX7Gg= In-Reply-To: <89E2752CFA8EC044846EB8499819134102AF2896F5@EXCH-MBX-4.vmware.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2010 02:03:56.0366 (UTC) FILETIME=[627C26E0:01CAECC0] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5/5/10 10:29 AM, "Dmitry Torokhov" wrote: > It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under GPL. > The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the > plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel > modules. On 5/5/10 3:05 PM, "Shreyas Bhatewara" wrote: > The plugin image is not linked against Linux kernel. It is OS agnostic infact > (Eg. same plugin works for Linux and Windows VMs) Are there any issues with injecting the GPL-licensed plug-in into the Windows vmxnet3 NDIS driver? -scott