On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 09:59:27AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Thu 2019-08-15 09:51:32, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 09:13:50AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I realize that "interesting" license is not on a list of bugs suitable > > > for -stable, but on the other hand, this tends to scare corporate > > > lawyers... so perhaps we should remove the driver in -stable, too? > > > > > > Upstream commit id is 441bf7332d55c4d34afae9ffc3bbec621093f4d1. > > > > > > 4.19 has the problematic driver, 4.4 does not. > > > > If a lawyer has issues with this, please just upgrade to the latest > > kernel release :) > > We are talking this project: > https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start . > Upgrading is not an option, but I can take the patch locally.
It does not meet the stable rules, sorry, I'm not going to take it. > If someone has confirmation that "interesting" license is a mistake > and it is indeed GPL, that would be nice, too. Feel free to discus it with the company who wrote the driver :) good luck! greg k-h