Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:34:59 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat |
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Hi!
> > > > It should be, unless there's some problem. In maybe a week or so. > > > > > > To make life bearable for out-of kernel modules, the following patch > > > adds 2 macros so that existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat > > > can be easily detected. > > > > That's not the way we're making additions. Get your code merged and > > there won't be any need to detect the feature. > > When Greg made sysfs GPL only, I've asked whether it is possible to merge > vmmon/vmnet in (and changing its license, of course). Answer on LKML was > quite clear: no, you are not interested in having vmmon/vmnet in Linux > kernel as you do not believe that they are usable for anything else > than VMware.
What about
1) Put vmmon/vmnet under GPL
2) Find some GPL user of vmmon/vmnet
3) Merge should be doable now
Pavel
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