[PATCH v5 4/9] video: Add generic HDMI infoframe helpers

[Lucas Stach]

Am Montag, den 04.03.2013, 16:02 +0100 schrieb Thierry Reding:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:49:46PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 08:03:26AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> [...]
> > > diff --git a/drivers/video/hdmi.c b/drivers/video/hdmi.c
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..ab23c9b
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/drivers/video/hdmi.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
> > > +/*
> > > + * Copyright (C) 2012 Avionic Design GmbH
> > > + *
> > > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> > > + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> > > + */
> > 
> > BTW was there any discussion about the license? drm is generally MIT.
> > Are people OK with depending on GPL code for infoframe support?
> 
> I wasn't aware of that. I don't know how much of an issue it is really
> since all symbols are exported non-GPL.
> 
> Thierry

It's not about the export of the symbols, but more about porting DRM to
other UNIXes like BSD. Using the GPL here makes life for the BSD guys a
lot harder and they are already struggling really hard to keep up with
the pace of Linux. So if you don't care too much it would be nice to use
MIT here.

Regards,
Lucas