From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754234AbcEPP1M (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2016 11:27:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51320 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753970AbcEPP1L (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2016 11:27:11 -0400 Subject: Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs To: Christoph Hellwig References: <743399f9-10b7-6e62-2bf4-6a8656df8a55@redhat.com> <20160516114926.GA681@lst.de> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Doug Ledford Openpgp: id=AE6B1BDA122B23B4265B1274B826A3330E572FDD; url=pgp.mit.edu Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:26:37 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160516114926.GA681@lst.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7OOR0gI452uuUorRxpfdwiFANrMHQm242" X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Mon, 16 May 2016 15:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --7OOR0gI452uuUorRxpfdwiFANrMHQm242 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/16/2016 07:49 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > [adding Linus and linux-kernel to Cc] >=20 > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:04:17PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: >> You submitted new files into the subsystem under GPL only license in >> contrast to the rest of the subsystem. This presents a problem. I'm = in >> the position where I need to either revert them, or I need your >> permission to make them dual license GPL/BSD to match the rest of the >> subsystem. Were you intentionally trying to make the OFED work illega= l, >> or just an oversight? >=20 > Hi Doug, >=20 > the RDMA code was developed for a GPLed driver and moved to the code, > and lots of people contributed to it under the GPL, as they assumed > Linux code in genral is. =D0=86f dual-licensing is possible at all it = would > require a lot of work, which I don't think is worth it. If you don't > want GPL code in the core rdma.ko module we can move it to a rdma-gpl.k= o > module, but that would be a little bit odd. >=20 BTW, please keep me on the Cc: for any replies as I don't track linux-kernel. --=20 Doug Ledford GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD --7OOR0gI452uuUorRxpfdwiFANrMHQm242 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXOeatAAoJELgmozMOVy/d4UIP/0u9qoTSIxEY2XhLf2V53M25 76Ol8IG6H9qNdc1s3h5v/bzJHsjd5LGE8aqxO8vWOaAW0RRU6Cvd5wgnrKcMVQbw aKCgv9FoisjoZhh2y2rA5w4+LncVmC4jG5teZQ1Zzx0L8teU0Ir0Hvg6bHieuw4q YcWPIzt6pM1pJJ/AFjxEvEonzqUJyKn/aBeEY9unFa5iGbPFd0+qvaJILZkbysqZ ipKI64/46dcUfzenbRHXb+n+IhbMjs/5P2Af5wW5pDw9sQTCJ484JUksvqAd1OHA UNb2+6S3CJjjNWSltsLR12RwjA0vPNABAf7f/bmKxOghQEGd4tkx6k7nuFXjkwa8 oiBDhDDngkLQuhv32DGywfUiNMBoDKKNN5YSqZkimcFYjOez+Qxd1atEihfECnir 7xlR109CXRO5R43ZukTmr7cHrg2RWzgBIr/7EB9uSII3ZyW0f+qhAGxjgZqDItyY vUpsNRBPCfDBEAItSG8gdnOOzNzHzeKgqD9DbUVRNJBpbE5qc/MJaid1I8Wz/PTp dhUaz+ho0Lessvwu1aiZhVL6kCLLKXFBZNg1+bKKsn5PuUedF+Mvnovuu5oSQ/NV aqUPKoPhAzKRgVvZrTv+MHjfCU5VFjdwyLQ0gvsZtYXcCQIDQKPCMsHbKvQyjlQk 7BpPwMTbvkxfjuup4jCz =cB9o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7OOR0gI452uuUorRxpfdwiFANrMHQm242--