Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:02:16 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] splice exports |
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On Sat, Apr 01 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 18:14 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 31 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >> Jens Axboe wrote: > > >>> On Fri, Mar 31 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >>>> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>>>> Woe be unto he who builds their filesystems as modules. > > >>>> since splice support is highly linux specific and new.. shouldn't these > > >>>> be _GPL exports? > > >>> Yes they should, I'll add that to the current splice tree. > > >> Why? We don't usually restrict filesystems in such ways... I would > > >> rather a binary-only module reference generic_file_splice_read() than > > >> create its own. > > > > > > You could use that very same argument for any piece of the kernel, then, > > > so I don't think that adds much value to _not_ exporting it GPL. > > > > Not really, because I'm considering the Real World(tm) users, not > > abstract theory :) The other filesystem junk is exported non-GPL, and > > existing binary-only filesystems use that stuff. > > > > IOW its a bit rude to say "oh you can have your BO filesystem, just not > > splice support." > > > it's a bit like saying "you can use all the standard unix interfaces, > but these are very linux specific"; eg the same arguments for making lsm > and other pieces _GPL; they're so linux specific that users that use > these do so with linux in mind etc
Linus seems to agree with the _GPL not being appropriate as well, so I guess I'll bow to the majority. This time :-)
-- Jens Axboe
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