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Message-ID: <2023112702-postal-rumbling-003f@gregkh>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:36:54 +0000
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>, Leonid Bloch <lbloch@...dia.com>,
        Itay Avraham <itayavr@...dia.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add mlx5ctl misc driver

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 11:06:16PM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> +config MLX5CTL
> +	tristate "mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver"
> +	depends on MLX5_CORE
> +	help
> +	  MLX5CTL provides interface for the user process to access the debug and
> +          configuration registers of the ConnectX hardware family
> +          (NICs, PCI switches and SmartNIC SoCs).
> +          This will allow configuration and debug tools to work out of the box on
> +          mainstream kernel.

Did you run checkpatch.pl on this?  You lost the tabs :(

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/misc/mlx5ctl/main.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,314 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0

Why is this dual licensed?  Again, you are using a GPL-only api for this
driver, how would that even be possible to make this code be BSD?

I thought we already discussed this, AND I talked to someone who
discussed this with a nvidia lawyer already and I thought this was going
to get changed.  What happened to that?

thanks,

greg k-h

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