From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
To: pv-drivers@vmware.com
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, vm-crosstalk@vmware.com,
        George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 04/10] VMCI: device driver implementaton.
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:15:03 -0700
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On Thursday, October 25, 2012 02:03:20 PM Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:43:50PM -0700, Bhavesh Davda wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > > You can't just say "general GPL issues aside".  Honestly, given your
> > > company's prior actions in regards to Linux kernel drivers and the
> > > licenses of them, I don't trust them at all.  To help gain that trust
> > > back, marking the exports in this manner will be a great improvement.
> > 
> > You don't expect us to just let that comment slide :) Can you be more
> > specific about which "prior actions" in regards to which kernel
> > drivers, and when?
> 
> For many many years, you shipped closed source Linux kernel drivers for
> your products.  Only recently has this changed.

That was in the past. As far as I know our Linux drivers have been open
for more than 5 years, so not that recently.

Thanks,
Dmitry

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