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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:46:14 +0000
From: Saurabh Singh Sengar <ssengar@...rosoft.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Saurabh Sengar <ssengar@...ux.microsoft.com>
CC: KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
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Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] tools: hv: Add vmbus_bufring
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2023 2:46 AM
> To: Saurabh Sengar <ssengar@...ux.microsoft.com>
> Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang
> <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>; wei.liu@...nel.org; Dexuan Cui
> <decui@...rosoft.com>; Michael Kelley (LINUX) <mikelley@...rosoft.com>;
> corbet@....net; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org;
> linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] tools: hv: Add vmbus_bufring
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:15:09AM -0700, Saurabh Sengar wrote:
> > Common userspace interface for read/write from VMBus ringbuffer.
> > This implementation is open for use by any userspace driver or
> > application seeking direct control over VMBus ring buffers.
> > A significant part of this code is borrowed from DPDK.
>
> " "?
>
> Anyway, this does not explain what this is at all.
>
> And if you "borrowed" it from DPDK, that feels odd, are you sure you are
> allowed to do so?
Yes, we have confirmed this with our legal team, as the previous code is
covered under an appropriate open-source license, we are fine to reuse it here.
- Saurabh
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