Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753234AbbHDSFY (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:05:24 -0400 Received: from mail-yk0-f177.google.com ([209.85.160.177]:34262 "EHLO mail-yk0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751214AbbHDSFW (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:05:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:05:20 -0400 From: Tejun Heo 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 Message-ID: <20150804180520.GE17598@mtj.duckdns.org> References: <1438709164-3645-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1438709164-3645-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 27 On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:26:04AM -0600, tim.gardner@canonical.com wrote: > From: Tim Gardner > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner Applied to wq/for-4.3. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/