Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:21:07 +0200 | From | Petr Vandrovec <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-mm1, class_simple_* and GPL addition |
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:55:41PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:17 +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > VMware's vmnet is broken by this too. VMware was asked by RedHat to > > add udev compatibility to the code, and now you are saying that both > > who in Red Hat (notice the space) asked you this? I'm not aware of any > official request to vmware to do this...
I assumed that email I received from Warren Togami was official notice that RHEL4 is going to be udev based and that as vmnet does not currently create its device nodes in /dev, something should be done about it.
As this request was quite popular, and doing it properly through sysfs instead of doing several mknods when initscripts run, I filled internal bug report that RHEL4 will use udev and vmnet should be compatible with it. And then I implemented some minimal sysfs support.
Week after that I saw first email from Greg changing sysfs_driver_* & co. to GPL only. I did not worry as this set did not comtain class_simple, and so I assumed that I'm doing nothing wrong. But today I noticed that even class_simple is GPL only in -mm.
It was not lot of work, I'd say under 1 hour, but it just does not seem correct to me, changing symbols visibility after people start using them.
OK, next beta will do several mknods in /etc/init.d/vmware script. Not technically nice, but working. Petr Vandrovec
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