linux-kernel - Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

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Message-ID: <47530778.7030605@candelatech.com>
Date:	Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:28:56 -0800
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

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 <greearb@...delatech.com> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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