On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 03:55:35PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > My understanding (and this is from reading Greg KH's patches) is that > any new interface should use _GPL variant unless there is an absolute > need for it. Say, a binary driver that uses this function and there is > no other way around it.
A binary driver could implement the same functionality using exported interfaces from the ACPI core, so I don't see any benefit in insisting on _GPL here. _GPL is intended to be a hint that use of the interface is definitely an indication that you're creating a derived work. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
