Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:51:52 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range |
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Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:11:32AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > >>On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:51:32PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: >>> >>>>I don't understand why IBM is pushing this dubious change right now, >>> >>>It isn't a dubious change, on technical grounds. It is reasonable for a >>>distributed filesystem to want to be able to shoot down pte's which map >>>sections of pagecache. Just as it is reasonable for the filesystem to be >>>able to shoot down the pagecache itself. >>> >>>We've exported much lower-level stuff than this, because some in-kernel >>>module happened to use it. >> >>Probably not always the right choice, though... I highly suspect we >>far to much of our intestines are easily available. > > > Again, the whole point of the patch is to -reduce- the degree of > intestinal export. > > Thanx, Paul
Paul, this still doesn't answer why GPFS can't be released under the GPL.
If this has been answered, I'd love to see a pointer to which archives in which I should search. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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