Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761433AbcLUR6m (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:58:42 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:38908 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761214AbcLUR6k (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:58:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:58:36 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Paolo Bonzini , Roman Kagan , Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Vitaly Kuznetsov , kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Denis V . Lunev" , Haiyang Zhang , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , devel@linuxdriverproject.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] hyperv: move VMBus connection ids to uapi Message-ID: <20161221175836.GA8846@infradead.org> References: <20161220155602.6298-1-rkagan@virtuozzo.com> <20161220155602.6298-13-rkagan@virtuozzo.com> <20161220092543.6183bffd@xeon-e3> <20161221062939.GB15917@rkaganb.sw.ru> <20161221121858.GA17429@infradead.org> <20161221125920.GG15917@rkaganb.sw.ru> <20161221142654.GB8594@infradead.org> <20161221154348.GA31401@infradead.org> <20161221095049.6fdc3145@xeon-e3> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161221095049.6fdc3145@xeon-e3> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 468 Lines: 8 On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:50:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Lastly, there is licensing issues on headers. It would be good to have any > userspace ABI headers licensed with a more liberal license so that BSD and DPDK drivers > could use them directly. Right now each one reinvents. Microsoft could easily solves this problem by offering a suitably liberally licensed header documenting the full HyperV guest protocol that Linux and other projects could use.