Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation

[Alan Cox]

> On the other hand, given that we've always said that closed-source stuff in
> userspace is OK, the only way to not let *that* horse out of the barn is to
> not merge UIO at all.

It really makes no difference whether it is merged or not. The test is
"derivative work" and not 'linking'. 

A user space driver that is unusuable without a specific GPL kernel chunk
is quite likely to be a derived work of the GPL kernel module so the
documentation is giving poor advice however

Alan
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