From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:19:29 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Message-Id: <20040217161929.7e6b2a61.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040217124001.GA1267@us.ibm.com> References: <20040216190927.GA2969@us.ibm.com> <20040217073522.A25921@infradead.org> <20040217124001.GA1267@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: paulmck@us.ibm.com Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > > IBM shipped the promised SAN Filesystem some months ago. Neat, but it's hard to see the relevance of this to your patch. I don't see any licensing issues with the patch because the filesystem which needs it clearly meets Linus's "this is not a derived work" criteria. And I don't see a technical problem with the export: given that we export truncate_inode_pages() it makes sense to also export the corresponding pagetable shootdown function. Yes, this is a sensitive issue. Can we please evaluate it strictly according to technical and licensing considerations? Having said that, what concerns issues remain with Paul's patch? Thanks. -- 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