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

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Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2017 10:50:44 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     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,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status

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.

thanks,

greg k-h