Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:02:47 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/15] hyperv: move VMBus connection ids to uapi |
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:58:36 -0800 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:50:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Lastly, there is licensing issues on headers. It would be good to have any > > userspace ABI headers licensed with a more liberal license so that BSD and DPDK drivers > > could use them directly. Right now each one reinvents. > > Microsoft could easily solves this problem by offering a suitably > liberally licensed header documenting the full HyperV guest protocol > that Linux and other projects could use.
The issue is if same header file mixes kernel and userspace API stuff.
Once the files are arranged right, I will submit trivial change to comments to indicate the liberal licensing of userspace API headers.
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