Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264991AbUIDRsm (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:48:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265098AbUIDRsL (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:48:11 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:52632 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264991AbUIDRqA (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:46:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [IA64] allow OEM written modules to make calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions. From: Alan Cox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List , dcn@sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20040904103529.C13149@infradead.org> References: <200409032207.i83M7CKj015068@hera.kernel.org> <1094280707.2801.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040904103529.C13149@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094316214.10586.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:43:35 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 578 Lines: 14 On Sad, 2004-09-04 at 10:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > are there any such modules? Are they GPL licensed or all proprietary ? > > SGI has stated they have propritary modules that need this, that's why it's > got added despite my objections. Wouldn't that be "had" since they are clearly now derivative works of the GPL OS core. - 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/