linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref

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Message-ID: <de2e08c1-5bb3-e62a-a624-d2db2a54e6cc@nvidia.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2017 01:53:48 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <john.hubbard@...il.com>
CC:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status



On 03/08/2017 01:50 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:25:49AM -0800, john.hubbard@...il.com wrote:
>> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
>>
>> Originally, kref_get and kref_put were available as
>> standard routines that even non-GPL device drivers
>> could use.
>
> As I stated in my response to the 0/1 of this patch, this sentence is
> not true, sorry, the inlined functions were GPL-v2-only.

OK, got it. I overlooked that point.

thanks
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>