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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>,
	Frank Seidel <fseidel@suse.de>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, rlove@rlove.org, protasnb@gmail.com,
	Michael Ruoss <miruoss@student.ethz.ch>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>,
	Frank Seidel <frank@f-seidel.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon/hdaps: Fix bug 7154 inversion of separate axis
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:28:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090215152822.GA22529@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090215162359.763b3918@hyperion.delvare>

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:23:59PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:41:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > You're arguing that sysfs interfaces are copyrightable?
> 
> I'm not arguing anything. I'll let you, Shame Multithing and anyone
> else with too much spare time argue whatever you want. Me, I have many
> more useful things to do.

Adopting an interface that's already in use in the wild is a perfectly 
reasonable thing to do. The argument is over whether the tp_smapi driver 
itself has IP issues, not over whether its sysfs interface does.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-15 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-13 12:38 [PATCH] hwmon/hdaps: Fix bug 7154 inversion of separate axis Frank Seidel
2009-02-14 22:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-02-15 13:34   ` Jean Delvare
2009-02-15  0:32 ` Shem Multinymous
2009-02-15  9:27   ` Jean Delvare
2009-02-15 13:41     ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-15 15:23       ` Jean Delvare
2009-02-15 15:28         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-02-15  9:36 ` Jean Delvare
2009-02-15 12:16 ` [PATCHv2] " Frank Seidel
2009-02-15 13:01   ` [PATCHv3] " Frank Seidel
2009-02-15 14:37     ` Jean Delvare
2009-02-19 12:43       ` [PATCH] hwmon/hdaps: Fix bug 7154 adaption for Thinkpad X41 Frank Seidel
2009-02-19 17:16         ` Jean Delvare
2009-02-19 12:44       ` [PATCH] hwmon/hdaps: remove redundant sysfs invert Frank Seidel
2009-02-19 17:27         ` Jean Delvare
2009-02-19 20:00           ` Frank Seidel
2009-02-19 20:34             ` Jean Delvare
2009-02-20  8:35               ` Frank Seidel
2009-02-15 13:02   ` [PATCHv2] hwmon/hdaps: Fix bug 7154 inversion of separate axis Frank Seidel

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