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Re: [PATCH 4.2-rc5] workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules

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On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:26:04AM -0600, tim.gardner@canonical.com wrote:
> From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@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 <tj@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>

Applied to wq/for-4.3.

Thanks.

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tejun
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[PATCH 4.2-rc5] workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules tim.gardner@canonical.com - 2015-08-04 19:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 4.2-rc5] workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available  again to non GPL modules Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-08-04 20:10 +0200

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