Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:24:02 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc/npu-dma: Remove NPU DMA ops |
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:09:29AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 13:58 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Please take my patch instead. We have a kernel polcity to not keep > > dead code around, and everyone including Linus and the attending IBMers > > confirmed this. > > Let's call a cat a cat ... ;-) > > It's not *dead* code. It's code that is used by an out of tree driver > (which also happen not to be open source).
Which clearly makes it a derived work of the kernel if it uses an interface just create for it, and thus even more important to remove it to not get anyone into legal trouble.
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