Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261459AbUCDFwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:52:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261460AbUCDFwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:52:22 -0500 Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8]:39583 "EHLO mta7.pltn13.pbi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261459AbUCDFwS (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:52:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4046C3F8.4070402@matchmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:51:52 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulmck@us.ibm.com CC: Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range References: <20040217073522.A25921@infradead.org> <20040217124001.GA1267@us.ibm.com> <20040217161929.7e6b2a61.akpm@osdl.org> <1077108694.4479.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040218140021.GB1269@us.ibm.com> <20040218211035.A13866@infradead.org> <20040218150607.GE1269@us.ibm.com> <20040218222138.A14585@infradead.org> <20040218145132.460214b5.akpm@osdl.org> <20040219091132.GE17140@khan.acc.umu.se> <20040219085819.GB1269@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20040219085819.GB1269@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1335 Lines: 35 Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:11:32AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > >>On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:51:32PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> >>>>I don't understand why IBM is pushing this dubious change right now, >>> >>>It isn't a dubious change, on technical grounds. It is reasonable for a >>>distributed filesystem to want to be able to shoot down pte's which map >>>sections of pagecache. Just as it is reasonable for the filesystem to be >>>able to shoot down the pagecache itself. >>> >>>We've exported much lower-level stuff than this, because some in-kernel >>>module happened to use it. >> >>Probably not always the right choice, though... I highly suspect we >>far to much of our intestines are easily available. > > > Again, the whole point of the patch is to -reduce- the degree of > intestinal export. > > Thanx, Paul Paul, this still doesn't answer why GPFS can't be released under the GPL. If this has been answered, I'd love to see a pointer to which archives in which I should search. - 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/