On Fri, 2017-11-24 at 23:37 -0800, Neo Jia wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 05:23:00AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Just to be clear, here the request is to allow proprietary driver continue > > > supporting Linux OS when adopting SR-IOV - a PCIE virtualization technology > > > standardized by PCI SIG. > > > > And the anser in the previous mail was pretty clear: no. And while > > we're at it go talk to your lawyers again that you don't have a derived > > work, because I suspect you do with such intimate entangling. > > Hi Christoph, > > Right now, Linux kernel is providing PCI kernel interfaces to support > proprietary PCI driver when it follows the standard from PCI SIG spec. Some, but not all. For example, the SVM interfaces are also exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, and may not be used by drivers which violate the GPL licence of the kernel. You have already been told that this won't be changed. Please stop asking.
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