Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Feb 2015 13:52:18 +0100 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v17 1/7] mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE) |
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On Tue 03-02-15 17:39:24, Michael Kerrisk wrote: [...] > If I'm reading the conversation right, the initially proposed text > was from the BSD man page (which would be okay), but most of the > text above seems to have come straight from the page here: > http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?madvise+3 > > Right? > > Unfortunately, I don't think we can use that text. It's from the > Solaris man page as far as I can tell, and I doubt that it's > under a license that we can use.
Ohh, I wasn't aware of that restriction and didn't notice anything at the man page nor http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi. But you are definitely right that it would be better to not use this source. Sorry about that, I should have noticed that myself.
> If that's the case, we need to go back and come up with an > original text. It might draw inspiration from the Solaris page, > and take actual text from the BSD page (which is under a free > license), and it might also draw inspiration from Jon Corbet's > description at http://lwn.net/Articles/590991/. > > Could you take another shot this please!
Minchan is obviously working on one and I will review it once he is done with it. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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