Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752247AbdCHKQE (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 05:16:04 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46972 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751479AbdCHKP6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 05:15:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 10:50:44 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: john.hubbard@gmail.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Hubbard Subject: Re: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status Message-ID: <20170308095044.GC30552@kroah.com> References: <20170308092549.28982-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com> <20170308092549.28982-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170308092549.28982-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 385 Lines: 13 On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:25:49AM -0800, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote: > From: John Hubbard > > Originally, kref_get and kref_put were available as > standard routines that even non-GPL device drivers > could use. As I stated in my response to the 0/1 of this patch, this sentence is not true, sorry, the inlined functions were GPL-v2-only. thanks, greg k-h