From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270823AbTGVVYY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:24:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270824AbTGVVYX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:24:23 -0400 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:1674 "EHLO winder.codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270823AbTGVVYV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:24:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:39:26 -0600 From: Erik Andersen To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd Message-ID: <20030722213926.GA4295@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: Erik Andersen , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel References: <20030722184532.GA2321@codepoet.org> <20030722185443.GB6004@gtf.org> <20030722190705.GA2500@codepoet.org> <20030722205629.GA27179@gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030722205629.GA27179@gtf.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.19-rmk7, Rebel-NetWinder(Intel StrongARM 110 rev 3), 185.95 BogoMips X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 04:56:29PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I was reading over your libata driver yesterday. Certainly a lot > > cleaner than the cam stuff IMHO. Given the info made available > > via the Promise driver, I expect that I could get an initial > > libata host adaptor driver hacked together in short order. After > > all, the Intel one is just 400 lines. So unless you (or anyone > > else) have already started or would prefer to do the honors, > > I'll try to hack something together this evening, > > Shoot, that would be great ;-) K, I'll give it a try. > On a legal note, I would prefer that completely new drivers (i.e. no > copied code from other sources) be licensing in the same way as > libata.c. Maintainer's preference in the end, of course, but I would > like to strongly encourage following libata.c's example ;-) By that I assume you mean osl-1.1 like libata.c, rather than GPL like ata_piix.c.... I expect I may be copying bits and pieces from the Promise driver though. Certainly I'd like to use as much of their header files as seems practical. So it may very well need to stay GPL'd. But I'll see what I can do. > I have a TX2 board, too, so I can test your stuff as well. Cool. I have a TX2 as well. Hope I don't fry it... :) -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--