Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:00:45 -0800 | | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | | Subject | Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range |
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:29:00AM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2004-02-18T14:51:32, > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> said: > > > a) Does the export make technical sense? Do filesystems have > > legitimate need for access to this symbol? > > > > (really, a) is sufficient grounds, but for real-world reasons:) > > Technically, I assume both OCFS, Lustre, (OpenGFS), PolyServe and > basically /everyone/ doing a cluster file system, proprietary or not, > will eventually need this capability. Vendors have included hooks for > this in 2.4 already anyway. > > So on technical grounds, I'm strongly inclined to support it, but I > would like to suggest that it is ensured that the hook is sufficient for > all of the named CFS. > > Paul, have you spoken with them?
Lustre, yes. At OLS last summer, Peter Braam said that it was useful. The others, no, but they are certainly free to chime in.
> > b) Does the IBM filsystem meet the kernel's licensing requirements? > > If you are worried about this one, you can export it GPL-only, which as > an Open Source developer I'd appreciate, but from a real-world business > perspective would be unhappy about ;-)
Been there, done that. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
> Sincerely, > Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de> > > -- > High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. > SUSE Labs | try again. fail again. fail better. > Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG \ -- Samuel Beckett > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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