From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932196AbdJWLxE (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:53:04 -0400 Received: from mga04.intel.com ([192.55.52.120]:53505 "EHLO mga04.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932096AbdJWLxE (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:53:04 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.43,422,1503385200"; d="scan'208";a="166393386" Message-ID: <1508759574.29460.4.camel@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] soundwire: Add SoundWire bus type From: Alan Cox To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Vinod Koul Cc: Philippe Ombredanne , LKML , ALSA , Mark , Takashi , Pierre , Sanyog Kale , Shreyas NC , patches.audio@intel.com, Charles Keepax , Sagar Dharia , srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org, plai@codeaurora.org, Sudheer Papothi Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:52:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20171020162723.GB6674@kroah.com> References: <1508382211-3154-1-git-send-email-vinod.koul@intel.com> <1508382211-3154-3-git-send-email-vinod.koul@intel.com> <20171020104528.GC3210@kroah.com> <20171020162042.GW30097@localhost> <20171020162723.GB6674@kroah.com> Organization: Intel Corporation Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6 (3.22.6-2.fc25) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > I quick grep on Dual license users looks like we already have this > > in kernel > > code. See drivers/ntb/hw/intel/ntb_hw_intel.c > > Just because someone did something wrong in the past, doesn't mean > they > should keep doing more wrong things in the future :) What makes you think it's wrong ? It's the same approach the kernel has been using since back to Linux 1.2 and maybe earlier. I know it's not your intention but you are also going to look bad to the BSD and other communities if you try and break dual licensing as a standard Linux thing for some code. It goes back decades (Ted's random driver for example). Alan From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] soundwire: Add SoundWire bus type Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:52:54 +0100 Message-ID: <1508759574.29460.4.camel@linux.intel.com> References: <1508382211-3154-1-git-send-email-vinod.koul@intel.com> <1508382211-3154-3-git-send-email-vinod.koul@intel.com> <20171020104528.GC3210@kroah.com> <20171020162042.GW30097@localhost> <20171020162723.GB6674@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC28266A73 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:53:04 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20171020162723.GB6674@kroah.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Vinod Koul Cc: ALSA , Charles Keepax , Sudheer Papothi , Takashi , plai@codeaurora.org, Shreyas NC , Pierre , LKML , patches.audio@intel.com, Mark , srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org, Philippe Ombredanne , Sanyog Kale , Sagar Dharia List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > > I quick grep on Dual license users looks like we already have this > > in kernel > > code. See drivers/ntb/hw/intel/ntb_hw_intel.c > > Just because someone did something wrong in the past, doesn't mean > they > should keep doing more wrong things in the future :) What makes you think it's wrong ? It's the same approach the kernel has been using since back to Linux 1.2 and maybe earlier. I know it's not your intention but you are also going to look bad to the BSD and other communities if you try and break dual licensing as a standard Linux thing for some code. It goes back decades (Ted's random driver for example). Alan