Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs

From	Parav Pandit <pandit.parav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs
Date	2016-05-18 18:00 +0200
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/17/2016 10:48 PM, Parav Pandit wrote:
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Nice catch there Bart.  That was well before my role as maintainer and
>>> so settles things well enough for me.  IOW, I don't feel I need to worry
>>> about trying to maintain the dual license nature of the RDMA stack as it
>>> was broken long before I took over.  Thanks for pointing that out.
>>>
>>
>> Does it mean we can submit new code files under GPL only license?
>
> You always could.
>
>> I submitted RDMA cgroup related code in ib_core under GPLv2 only license.
>
> You did and you didn't.  For instance, in patch 1/3, the new
> cgroup_rdma.c file has a notice of GPLv2, but no notice of copyright, so
> it's incomplete.  You need to put a copyright notice in the file too.
> And in the file cgroup_rdma.h you have neither a copyright notice or a
> license statement.  It's a plain file.
>
> In patch 2/3, the file infiniband/core/cgroup.c has a copied dual
> license (not necessary, it can be GPL only), but again, it is missing
> the copyright notice.
>
ok. I will fix this part too in v11.

> You need to finish the conversation you and Christoph were having in
> that thread, but you also need a v11 of the patchset that fixes the
> copyright issues.
>
Yes. I will ping Christoph and Tejun as I am waiting for their responses.

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Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-05-16 13:50 +0200
  Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> - 2016-05-16 17:00 +0200
    Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-16 19:50 +0200
      Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> - 2016-05-16 20:30 +0200
        Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> - 2016-05-17 19:40 +0200
          Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-17 21:00 +0200
          Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Parav Pandit <pandit.parav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 04:50 +0200
            Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> - 2016-05-18 16:10 +0200
              Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Parav Pandit <pandit.parav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 18:00 +0200
      Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-05-17 07:40 +0200
        Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2016-05-17 17:40 +0200
  Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> - 2016-05-16 17:30 +0200

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