Bruce, Sorry to be so slow...
We got confirmation that these can be removed in all cases. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 7:54 AM To: Butler, Paul Cc: Jacques, John M (John); Development list for the linux-yocto repositories Subject: Re: [linux-yocto] Query about arch/arm/mach-axxia/wrappers.c On 13-12-10 02:37 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > Hi Paul, > > During some recent work with the axxia BSP it was pointed out to me > that the intent of this commit is still pending. ping. I haven't heard anything about this. I'll look at reverting the change myself, unless I hear something. Bruce > > i.e. We are carrying a commit that changes the licensing of exported > symbols on the BSP branch. > > I'm not sure how I didn't notice this explicitly during review, but > when processing large sets of patches, things to slip through from > time to time. What matters is how we react to the them when we notice > :) > > So here's my question. I'm looking for a timeline when this can be > resolved. We really don't want to carry a patch like this for much > longer. If the drivers that depend on this are not already in the > tree, we should drop the change and carry the changes with the drivers > themselves. > > If the changes are in the tree, then we should fixup the exports, or > again, drop the change entirely. > > I've pasted the original commit for reference below. > > Cheers, > > Bruce > > > commit 191b5774c0a1bc2e15fb6800f0281af15da1e2b8 > Author: John Jacques <[email protected]> > Date: Wed Jul 17 21:33:12 2013 -0500 > > drivers/net/ethernet: Wrapper Cleanup > > Some of the Linux function calls got changed in later versions of > Linux > to require the caller to be GPLd. We are in the process of GPLing all > our driver code, but were not yet finished doing so. The wrappers were > a temporary work around until the RTE (the external module we provide > to customers that controls the rest of the hardware) is GPLd. > > Signed-off-by: John Jacques <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > linux-yocto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/linux-yocto _______________________________________________ linux-yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/linux-yocto
