From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:09:36 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Message-ID: <20031126130936.A5275@infradead.org> References: <20031125211518.6f656d73.akpm@osdl.org> <20031126085123.A1952@infradead.org> <20031126044251.3b8309c1.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031126044251.3b8309c1.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:42:51AM -0800 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:42:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > The individual patches in the broken-out/ directory are usually > changelogged. This one says: > > It was EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), however IBM's GPFS is not GPL. > > - the GPFS team contributed to the testing and development of > invaldiate_mmap_range(). > > - GPFS was developed under AIX and was ported to Linux, and hence meets > Linus's "some binary modules are OK" exemption. > > - The export makes sense: clustering filesystems need it for shootdowns to > ensure cache coherency. Have you actually looked at the gpfs glue code? something that digs that deep into the VM and VFS actually _must_ be derived work. Or do wed allow people now to pay a developer tax to buy themselves free from GPL restrictions. I as one of the collective copytight holders of the kernel strongly disagree with that, it can't be true that IBM can just ignore copyright law.. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org