On Dienstag, 4. August 2015 14:05:20 Tejun Heo wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:26:04AM -0600, tim.gard...@canonical.com wrote: > > From: Tim Gardner <tim.gard...@canonical.com> > > > > Commit 37b1ef31a568fc02e53587620226e5f3c66454c8 ("workqueue: move > > flush_scheduled_work() to workqueue.h") moved the exported non GPL > > flush_scheduled_work() from a function to an inline wrapper. > > Unfortunately, it directly calls flush_workqueue() which is a GPL > > function. > > This has the effect of changing the licensing requirement for this > > function > > and makes it unavailable to non GPL modules. > > > > See commit ad7b1f841f8a54c6d61ff181451f55b68175e15a ("workqueue: Make > > schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules") for precedent. > > > > Cc: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gard...@canonical.com> > > Applied to wq/for-4.3. > > Thanks.
Tejun, mind CCing stable in this regard? As things stand right now, it's activily deferring 4.2 rollout for (evil, sure) nvidia users like me. Thanks, Pete -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/