RE: [char-misc-next 06/12] mei: dma ring buffers allocation

From: Winkler, Tomas
Date: Sun Aug 05 2018 - 16:38:56 EST



> Subject: RE: [char-misc-next 06/12] mei: dma ring buffers allocation
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> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:35:38AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/dma-ring.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0
> >
> > I thought Intel was not doing this type of crazy nonsense anymore and
> > just properly creating new files that were GPL-2.0.
> >
> > Are you _sure_ you want to do this?
I would prefer to keep it that way actually, hoping eventually relicense most of the files in the driver under the dual license,
currently it's really kind of mix.
I'm not sure where this was discussed before, so you've surprised me with this comment.
There is no hidden agenda behind this move, just let the BSD and virtualization world look at the code more freely we have quite a gap there.

Thanks
Tomas