linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86: Emergency virtualization disable function

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Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:11:59 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Haren Myneni <hbabu@...ibm.com>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, mingo@...hat.com,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86: Emergency virtualization disable function

Hi!

> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/virtext.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
> > > +/* Core CPU virtualization extensions handling
> > > + *
> > > + * This should carry the code for handling CPU virtualization extensions
> > > + * that needs to live in the kernel core.
> > > + *
> > > + * Author: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
> > > + *
> > > + * Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc.
> > > + */
> > 
> > GPL?
> 
> Yes, of course.
> 
> As IANAL, I used a similar .c file as reference for the author/copyright
> info header, and used arch/x86/kernel/crash.c, that doesn't refer to
> the GPL also. I think I chose a bad example as reference.
> 
> arch/x86/kernel/crash.c even has "All rights reserved". Ouch.

Yep, that should be fixed.

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