linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] tools include: add dis-asm-compat.h to handle version differences

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Date:   Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:46:16 -0700
From:   Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de>
To:     Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] tools include: add dis-asm-compat.h to handle
 version differences

Hi,

On 2022-07-15 12:39:27 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-07-05 14:44:07 +0100, Quentin Monnet wrote:
> > > diff --git a/tools/include/tools/dis-asm-compat.h b/tools/include/tools/dis-asm-compat.h
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..d1d003ee3e2f
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/tools/include/tools/dis-asm-compat.h
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
> > > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > 
> > Any chance you could contribute this wrapper as dual-licenced
> > (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause), for better compatibility with the rest
> > of bpftool's code?
> 
> Happy to do that from my end - however, right now it includes
> linux/compiler.h, which is GPL-2.0. I don't know what the policy around that
> is - is it just a statement about the licence of the header itself, or does it
> effectively include its dependencies?

FWIW, dis-asm.h itself is GPL-3-or-later.

Greetings,

Andres Freund