On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:34:08AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Drivers under MIT, BSD-17-clause, or uncle-Bob's-newest-take-on-PD are > all fine, not just GPL. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Not reformatting to fill lines, it'll semi-conflict with another patch > that's been acked but not yet pushed. > > Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst > index 24f5aeecee91..9b69fb08b65e 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst > @@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ nightmare, and trying to keep up with an ever changing kernel interface > is also a rough job. > > Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we > -are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall > +are talking about drivers released under a GPL-compatible license here, > +if your code doesn't fall > under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech > <insert link to leech comment from Andrew and Linus here>.) If your > driver is in the tree, and a kernel interface changes, it will be fixed Nice fix: Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
