Re: [PATCH 2/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add mlx5ctl misc driver

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:49:08AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 10:30:00AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 01:19:38AM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB
> > 
> > For dual-licensed code, I need a LOT of documentation as to why this
> > must be dual-licensed, AND a signed-off-by from your corporate lawyer
> > agreeing to it so they convey an understanding of just how complex and
> > messy this will get over time and what you are agreeing to do here.
> 
> This is how we (NBU, Networking Business Unit in Nvidia, former Mellanox)
> are instructed to submit all our code by default. This license is aligned
> with our networking, vdpa and RDMA code.

Please don't do this without a really really good reason.  Especially
for a "misc" driver that is so linux-dependant here.  The "Linux-OpenIB"
license is old, obsolete, and problematic and should not be added to any
new files in the kernel tree, outside of the island of
drivers/infiniband/ as you all insist on that crazyness there.

Heck, it's even documented that you shouldn't be adding that license to
any new files, why ignore that?

thanks,

greg k-h