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Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:28:56 -0800 From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> CC: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> >> Naw, enterprise (or any other) distro vendors shouldn't have any issues here, >> since they can just patch their kernels around any issues. >> >> But it looks like Eric has this one thought out well enough. >> > > So you are saying all this is not a problem, fine. > Any affected parties can certainly lobby for themselves. But I suspect > they all think the kernel community is a bunch of ... and will just ignore > the problem. > I have a binary module that uses dev_get_by_name...it's sort of a bridge-like thing and needs user-space to tell it which device to listen for packets on... This code doesn't need or care about name-spaces, so I don't see how it could really be infringing on the author's code (any worse than loading a binary driver into the kernel ever does). I would certainly prefer to not have to patch around any problems with calling dev_get_by_name from a non-gpl module, but if required, I can probably figure something out... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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