Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] w32: Fix regression caused by new g_poll implementation

[Stefan Weil]

Am 23.05.2014 12:36, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 17 May 2014 09:34, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Commit 5a007547df76446ab891df93ebc55749716609bf tried to fix a
>> performance degradation caused by bad handling of small timeouts
>> in the original implementation of g_poll.
>>
>> Since that commit, hard disk I/O no longer works.
>>
>> Instead of rewriting the g_poll implementation, this patch simply copies
>> the original code (released under LGPL) from latest glib and only modifies
>> it where needed (see comments in the code). URL of the original code:
>> https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/glib/gpoll.c
> 
> Oops, I didn't notice you'd done that. Our util/oslib-win32.c
> file is marked as having a more liberal license than LGPL.
> So we can't simply copy the LGPL code in without at least
> adjusting the top-of-file comment to indicate which parts
> of the file are LGPL and which are not.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
> 


Ah, sorry, I should have read the license comments of oslib-win32.c.
Thanks for that review. If it's sufficient to add some lines to the
license comment, I can send a patch next week. This weekend is reserved
for my family. :-) Or someone else fixes the license statement - that
would be fine, too.

Stefan