Re: nvidia vgaarb bug (was: Re: Static inline DRM functions calling into GPL-only code)

2017-12-06 Thread Lukas Wunner
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 03:46:05PM -0700, Andy Ritger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:24:33AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote: > > Sorry to hijack this thread, but there's an egregious, long-standing bug > > in your driver with regards to vgaarb usage: nvidia/nv.c calls > > vga_tryget() but never ca

Re: nvidia vgaarb bug (was: Re: Static inline DRM functions calling into GPL-only code)

2017-04-12 Thread Andy Ritger
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:24:33AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote: > Hi Nikhil, > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:44:35AM +0530, Nikhil Mahale wrote: > > There is not interest in relaxing the export of refcount_inc, and > > changing the license of nvidia-drm.ko isn't viable right now. > > Why not dual-l

nvidia vgaarb bug (was: Re: Static inline DRM functions calling into GPL-only code)

2017-04-11 Thread Lukas Wunner
Hi Nikhil, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:44:35AM +0530, Nikhil Mahale wrote: > There is not interest in relaxing the export of refcount_inc, and > changing the license of nvidia-drm.ko isn't viable right now. Why not dual-license as MIT+GPL? > * Make these static inline DRM functions EXPORT_SYMBO