Messages in this thread | | | From | Hans-Peter Jansen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.2-rc5] workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules | Date | Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:20:54 +0200 |
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On Dienstag, 4. August 2015 14:05:20 Tejun Heo wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:26:04AM -0600, tim.gardner@canonical.com wrote: > > From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> > > > > Commit 37b1ef31a568fc02e53587620226e5f3c66454c8 ("workqueue: move > > flush_scheduled_work() to workqueue.h") moved the exported non GPL > > flush_scheduled_work() from a function to an inline wrapper. > > Unfortunately, it directly calls flush_workqueue() which is a GPL > > function. > > This has the effect of changing the licensing requirement for this > > function > > and makes it unavailable to non GPL modules. > > > > See commit ad7b1f841f8a54c6d61ff181451f55b68175e15a ("workqueue: Make > > schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules") for precedent. > > > > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> > > Applied to wq/for-4.3. > > Thanks.
Tejun, mind CCing stable in this regard?
As things stand right now, it's activily deferring 4.2 rollout for (evil, sure) nvidia users like me.
Thanks, Pete
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