Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756264AbXLBT3U (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:29:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752469AbXLBT3F (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:29:05 -0500 Received: from ns2.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.211]:32952 "EHLO ns2.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751472AbXLBT3D (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:29:03 -0500 Message-ID: <47530778.7030605@candelatech.com> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:28:56 -0800 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070301) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger CC: Mark Lord , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" References: <47515D39.9030900@rtr.ca> <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill> <20071201163035.321fd554@freepuppy.rosehill> <475227B1.2060802@rtr.ca> <20071201202354.672aed18@freepuppy.rosehill> In-Reply-To: <20071201202354.672aed18@freepuppy.rosehill> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 41 Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> >> Naw, enterprise (or any other) distro vendors shouldn't have any issues here, >> since they can just patch their kernels around any issues. >> >> But it looks like Eric has this one thought out well enough. >> > > So you are saying all this is not a problem, fine. > Any affected parties can certainly lobby for themselves. But I suspect > they all think the kernel community is a bunch of ... and will just ignore > the problem. > I have a binary module that uses dev_get_by_name...it's sort of a bridge-like thing and needs user-space to tell it which device to listen for packets on... This code doesn't need or care about name-spaces, so I don't see how it could really be infringing on the author's code (any worse than loading a binary driver into the kernel ever does). I would certainly prefer to not have to patch around any problems with calling dev_get_by_name from a non-gpl module, but if required, I can probably figure something out... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- 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/