linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/1] refcount: restore kref_get and kref

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Message-Id: <20170308092549.28982-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Date:   Wed,  8 Mar 2017 01:25:48 -0800
From:   john.hubbard@...il.com
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status

From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>

Hi,

Say, I'm 99% sure that this was just an oversight, so
I'm sticking my neck out here and floating a patch to
Put Things Back. I'm hoping that there is not some
firm reason to GPL-protect the basic kref_get and
kref_put routines, because when designing some
recent new (open-source, yay!) device drivers, we relied
on this being available, even for MIT-licensed code.

John Hubbard (1):
  refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status

 lib/refcount.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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