Re: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status

[John Hubbard]

On 03/08/2017 01:50 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:25:49AM -0800, john.hubbard@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Originally, kref_get and kref_put were available as
> > standard routines that even non-GPL device drivers
> > could use.
>
> As I stated in my response to the 0/1 of this patch, this sentence is
> not true, sorry, the inlined functions were GPL-v2-only.

OK, got it. I overlooked that point.

thanks
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h