Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756369Ab3FRRku (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:40:50 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50325 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755152Ab3FRRks (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:40:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:40:47 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Juan David Gonzalez Cobas Cc: Alessandro Rubini , 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 Message-ID: <20130618174047.GA21738@kroah.com> References: <3e9f6b2fb7cd202da9bbb6371b27ff302ca8b860.1371018406.git.rubini@gnudd.com> <20130617231606.GB12984@kroah.com> <20130617233802.GA17517@mail.gnudd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1524 Lines: 48 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 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/