RE: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Feldman [mailto:scofeldm@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:04 PM
> To: Shreyas Bhatewara; Arnd Bergmann; Dmitry Torokhov
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig; pv-drivers@xxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> foundation.org; Pankaj Thakkar
> Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for
> vmxnet3
> 
> On 5/5/10 10:29 AM, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under
> GPL.
> > The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the
> > plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel
> > modules.
> 
> On 5/5/10 3:05 PM, "Shreyas Bhatewara" <sbhatewara@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The plugin image is not linked against Linux kernel. It is OS
> agnostic infact
> > (Eg. same plugin works for Linux and Windows VMs)
> 
> Are there any issues with injecting the GPL-licensed plug-in into the
> Windows vmxnet3 NDIS driver?
> 
> -scott

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