Re: [char-misc-next 06/12] mei: dma ring buffers allocation

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 08:38:30PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> 
> > Subject: RE: [char-misc-next 06/12] mei: dma ring buffers allocation
> > 
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:35:38AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/dma-ring.c
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
> > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0
> > >
> > > I thought Intel was not doing this type of crazy nonsense anymore and
> > > just properly creating new files that were GPL-2.0.
> > >
> > > Are you _sure_ you want to do this?
> I would prefer to keep it that way actually,  hoping eventually
> relicense most of the files in the driver under the dual license, 
> currently it's really kind of mix. 
> I'm not sure where this was discussed before, so you've surprised me with this comment.

Please go talk to the open source legal team at Intel, this has been
discussed with them a number of times now.  Look at the IB drivers for
one example of how this has changed.

thanks,

greg k-h