[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0/29v2] InfiniBand core update

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 18:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> OK, well the timing of a merge is mainly up to you guys, especially as the
> subsystem is pretty raw and you're the only people who use it ;)
> 
> Two things from a quick scan:
> 
> a) In many places the patch does
> 
> 	if (p)
> 		kfree(p);
> 
>    But kfree(0) is permitted.  The cleanup police will be after you at
>    some stage - it'd be best to fix those things up immediately.

I'll/We'll work on eradicating these and pushing a patch for this
upstream.

> b) The patch exports a ton of symbols to non-GPL modules:
> 
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_create_ah_from_wc);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_modify_mad);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_create_send_mad);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_free_send_mad);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_coalesce_recv_mad);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_sa_service_rec_query);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_create_cm_id);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_destroy_cm_id);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_cm_listen);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_req);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_rep);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_rtu);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_dreq);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_drep);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_rej);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_mra);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_lap);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_apr);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_sidr_req);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_send_cm_sidr_rep);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_cm_establish);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_cm_init_qp_attr);
> 
>    Why?

I think that is because OpenIB has a dual GPL/BSD license.

-- Hal