From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Collins Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add support for handling queueing in hardware Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:14:44 -0400 Message-ID: <0FF79196-E252-4738-BFB5-C0B10F447B33@gmail.com> References: <9AEAD974-4549-475A-AE15-C92523CD2466@gmail.com> <20130322.114159.2303026992656610194.davem@davemloft.net> <14243FE7-A0A6-4C0C-AEFB-95F19C8898E3@gmail.com> <20130322.115924.1452021957855498515.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: afleming@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130322.115924.1452021957855498515.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:59 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Collins > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:53:54 -0400 > >> Also, if there's a patch that makes my hardware work, but I can't >> use it because (even though it's open source licensed) the author >> doesn't want it in mainline, then that is effectively squatting. > > This is called respecting the wishes of the author of the code, I'm > sorry if this is a foreign concept for you. I'm sorry, I thought we were working on open source projects here. If the code isn't encumbered by patents, legal issues or technical problems, and is licensed compatible with the kernel, I just thought it was fair game. -- Servergy : http://www.servergy.com/ SwissDisk : http://www.swissdisk.com/ Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com/ My Blog : http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/