Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range

[Mike Fedyk]

Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:11:32AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:51:32PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't understand why IBM is pushing this dubious change right now,
> > >
> > > It isn't a dubious change, on technical grounds.  It is reasonable for a
> > > distributed filesystem to want to be able to shoot down pte's which map
> > > sections of pagecache.  Just as it is reasonable for the filesystem to be
> > > able to shoot down the pagecache itself.
> > >
> > > We've exported much lower-level stuff than this, because some in-kernel
> > > module happened to use it.
> >
> > Probably not always the right choice, though...  I highly suspect we
> > far to much of our intestines are easily available.
>
>
> Again, the whole point of the patch is to -reduce- the degree of
> intestinal export.
>
> 						Thanx, Paul

Paul, this still doesn't answer why GPFS can't be released under the GPL.

If this has been answered, I'd love to see a pointer to which archives 
in which I should search.
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