Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86: Emergency virtualization disable function

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 13:12:23 EST


Hi!

> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/virtext.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
> > > +/* Core CPU virtualization extensions handling
> > > + *
> > > + * This should carry the code for handling CPU virtualization extensions
> > > + * that needs to live in the kernel core.
> > > + *
> > > + * Author: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > + *
> > > + * Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc.
> > > + */
> >
> > GPL?
>
> Yes, of course.
>
> As IANAL, I used a similar .c file as reference for the author/copyright
> info header, and used arch/x86/kernel/crash.c, that doesn't refer to
> the GPL also. I think I chose a bad example as reference.
>
> arch/x86/kernel/crash.c even has "All rights reserved". Ouch.

Yep, that should be fixed.

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