SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion

SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion

[Lukas Bulwahn]

Dear Qlogic driver maintainers, dear Nilesh, deat Shahed, dear Manish,


during an unrelated kernel clean-up task, I noticed some LICENSE files for 
the qlogic drivers hanging around in Documentation.

Thomas Gleixner has provided you a patch series in June 2019 to pick up or 
simply add a Reviewed-by tag here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/20190606205526.447558989@linutronix.de

As it seems from the public mailing list archive, you have never responded 
to Thomas' request. If you could indicate that the change is fine for you,
I am happy to rebase the patch series to the current next tree, so that 
Thomas can pick that up and let it travel through the spdx tree to Linus 
for the next release.

See first reminder here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/alpine.DEB.2.21.2006300644130.4919@felia/

Just to let you know, I will send a third reminder in a few months, and 
if there is no response to that, I will just send a patch to mark those 
drivers where QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com or 
GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com are maintainers as Orphaned, just to keep 
MAINTAINERS reflect the actual state.


Best regards,

Lukas

Re: SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 08:00:17AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Dear Qlogic driver maintainers, dear Nilesh, deat Shahed, dear Manish,
> 
> 
> during an unrelated kernel clean-up task, I noticed some LICENSE files for 
> the qlogic drivers hanging around in Documentation.
> 
> Thomas Gleixner has provided you a patch series in June 2019 to pick up or 
> simply add a Reviewed-by tag here:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/20190606205526.447558989@linutronix.de
> 
> As it seems from the public mailing list archive, you have never responded 
> to Thomas' request. If you could indicate that the change is fine for you,
> I am happy to rebase the patch series to the current next tree, so that 
> Thomas can pick that up and let it travel through the spdx tree to Linus 
> for the next release.
> 
> See first reminder here:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/alpine.DEB.2.21.2006300644130.4919@felia/
> 
> Just to let you know, I will send a third reminder in a few months, and 
> if there is no response to that, I will just send a patch to mark those 
> drivers where QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com or 
> GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com are maintainers as Orphaned, just to keep 
> MAINTAINERS reflect the actual state.

This is why I hate having "group aliases" as maintainers.  It doesn't
work as we never know who "really" is maintaining the code, and there is
no accountability.

Given the length of a lack of response so far, I would suggest just
marking it orphaned now.  If someone wants to step up in the future to
maintain it, great, but it needs to be a person, not an email alias.

thanks,

greg k-h

RE: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion

[Nilesh Javali]

Lukas,

We have taken note of the comments and seeking opinion from our internal Legal team and will revert accordingly.

Thanks,
Nilesh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:30 AM
> To: qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com; QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com;
> GR-Linux-NIC-Dev <GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com>; Nilesh Javali
> <njavali@marvell.com>; Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@marvell.com>; Manish
> Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org; Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Subject: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion
> 
> External Email
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dear Qlogic driver maintainers, dear Nilesh, deat Shahed, dear Manish,
> 
> 
> during an unrelated kernel clean-up task, I noticed some LICENSE files for
> the qlogic drivers hanging around in Documentation.
> 
> Thomas Gleixner has provided you a patch series in June 2019 to pick up or
> simply add a Reviewed-by tag here:
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> 3A__lore.kernel.org_linux-2Dspdx_20190606205526.447558989-
> 40linutronix.de&d=DwIBAg&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=FAW9wuzbtHI
> ZL7SV63sr8rG59Hctu-eGu0G9pxwOXgQ&m=5_ut61ERR7QP6F0C--IeEz_uofF2-
> lqWqCoV1U6yEtg&s=Oft-T7CPXkIIPZqFYNlsWYYITwxxpz-LHyGtyVFH5qU&e=
> 
> As it seems from the public mailing list archive, you have never responded
> to Thomas' request. If you could indicate that the change is fine for you,
> I am happy to rebase the patch series to the current next tree, so that
> Thomas can pick that up and let it travel through the spdx tree to Linus
> for the next release.
> 
> See first reminder here:
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> 3A__lore.kernel.org_linux-2Dspdx_alpine.DEB.2.21.2006300644130.4919-
> 40felia_&d=DwIBAg&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=FAW9wuzbtHIZL7SV63
> sr8rG59Hctu-eGu0G9pxwOXgQ&m=5_ut61ERR7QP6F0C--IeEz_uofF2-
> lqWqCoV1U6yEtg&s=dwiuCg_O0vw8Zcy8WMO2ZMMEvlk04Ks_nkY-
> R_ltRZ8&e=
> 
> Just to let you know, I will send a third reminder in a few months, and
> if there is no response to that, I will just send a patch to mark those
> drivers where QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com or
> GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com are maintainers as Orphaned, just to keep
> MAINTAINERS reflect the actual state.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lukas

RE: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion

[Igor Russkikh]

Hi Lukas!

Sorry for the delay, my team is still responsible for maintenance of these ethernet drivers: qla3xxx and qlcnic.

The changes are quite natural, we already did similar spdx fixes on our current family of qed* drivers.

So here is my ACK for changes of these drivers license files.

> networking/device_drivers/qlogic/LICENSE.qla3xxx |   46 ---
> networking/device_drivers/qlogic/LICENSE.qlcnic  |  288 ----------------------

Acked-by: Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@marvell.com>

Do you want me to also reply to that original thread from Thomas?

Thanks,
   Igor

> > Dear Qlogic driver maintainers, dear Nilesh, deat Shahed, dear Manish,
> >
> >
> > during an unrelated kernel clean-up task, I noticed some LICENSE files
> > for the qlogic drivers hanging around in Documentation.
> >
> > Thomas Gleixner has provided you a patch series in June 2019 to pick
> > up or simply add a Reviewed-by tag here:
> >
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> > 3A__lore.kernel.org_linux-2Dspdx_20190606205526.447558989-
> > 40linutronix.de&d=DwIBAg&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=FAW9wuzbtHI
> > ZL7SV63sr8rG59Hctu-eGu0G9pxwOXgQ&m=5_ut61ERR7QP6F0C--IeEz_uofF2-
> > lqWqCoV1U6yEtg&s=Oft-T7CPXkIIPZqFYNlsWYYITwxxpz-LHyGtyVFH5qU&e=
> >
> > As it seems from the public mailing list archive, you have never
> > responded to Thomas' request. If you could indicate that the change is
> > fine for you, I am happy to rebase the patch series to the current
> > next tree, so that Thomas can pick that up and let it travel through
> > the spdx tree to Linus for the next release.
> >
> > See first reminder here:
> >
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> > 3A__lore.kernel.org_linux-2Dspdx_alpine.DEB.2.21.2006300644130.4919-
> > 40felia_&d=DwIBAg&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=FAW9wuzbtHIZL7SV63
> > sr8rG59Hctu-eGu0G9pxwOXgQ&m=5_ut61ERR7QP6F0C--IeEz_uofF2-
> > lqWqCoV1U6yEtg&s=dwiuCg_O0vw8Zcy8WMO2ZMMEvlk04Ks_nkY-
> > R_ltRZ8&e=
> >
> > Just to let you know, I will send a third reminder in a few months,
> > and if there is no response to that, I will just send a patch to mark
> > those drivers where QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com or
> > GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com are maintainers as Orphaned, just to keep
> > MAINTAINERS reflect the actual state.

RE: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion

[Nilesh Javali]

Lukas, Thomas,

We have got green signal from our internal legal and would like to give ACK for qla2xxx and qla4xxx driver license conversion.

Acked-by: Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nilesh Javali
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020 5:23 PM
> To: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>; qla2xxx-
> upstream@qlogic.com; QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com; GR-Linux-
> NIC-Dev <GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com>; Shahed Shaikh
> <shshaikh@marvell.com>; Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org; Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Subject: RE: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion
> 
> Lukas,
> 
> We have taken note of the comments and seeking opinion from our internal
> Legal team and will revert accordingly.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nilesh
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:30 AM
> > To: qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com; QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com;
> > GR-Linux-NIC-Dev <GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com>; Nilesh Javali
> > <njavali@marvell.com>; Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@marvell.com>; Manish
> > Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
> > Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org; Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Subject: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion
> >
> > External Email
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Dear Qlogic driver maintainers, dear Nilesh, deat Shahed, dear Manish,
> >
> >
> > during an unrelated kernel clean-up task, I noticed some LICENSE files for
> > the qlogic drivers hanging around in Documentation.
> >
> > Thomas Gleixner has provided you a patch series in June 2019 to pick up or
> > simply add a Reviewed-by tag here:
> >
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> > 3A__lore.kernel.org_linux-2Dspdx_20190606205526.447558989-
> >
> 40linutronix.de&d=DwIBAg&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=FAW9wuzbtHI
> > ZL7SV63sr8rG59Hctu-eGu0G9pxwOXgQ&m=5_ut61ERR7QP6F0C--
> IeEz_uofF2-
> > lqWqCoV1U6yEtg&s=Oft-T7CPXkIIPZqFYNlsWYYITwxxpz-LHyGtyVFH5qU&e=
> >
> > As it seems from the public mailing list archive, you have never responded
> > to Thomas' request. If you could indicate that the change is fine for you,
> > I am happy to rebase the patch series to the current next tree, so that
> > Thomas can pick that up and let it travel through the spdx tree to Linus
> > for the next release.
> >
> > See first reminder here:
> >
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> > 3A__lore.kernel.org_linux-2Dspdx_alpine.DEB.2.21.2006300644130.4919-
> >
> 40felia_&d=DwIBAg&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=FAW9wuzbtHIZL7SV63
> > sr8rG59Hctu-eGu0G9pxwOXgQ&m=5_ut61ERR7QP6F0C--IeEz_uofF2-
> > lqWqCoV1U6yEtg&s=dwiuCg_O0vw8Zcy8WMO2ZMMEvlk04Ks_nkY-
> > R_ltRZ8&e=
> >
> > Just to let you know, I will send a third reminder in a few months, and
> > if there is no response to that, I will just send a patch to mark those
> > drivers where QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com or
> > GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com are maintainers as Orphaned, just to keep
> > MAINTAINERS reflect the actual state.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Lukas

RE: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, Nilesh Javali wrote:

> Lukas, Thomas,
> 
> We have got green signal from our internal legal and would like to give ACK for qla2xxx and qla4xxx driver license conversion.
> 
> Acked-by: Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com>
>

Nilesh, that is great!

In the meantime, I have rebased Thomas' patchset from 2019 to v5.9-rc4 
here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/20200908123451.7215-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/

Nilesh, can you ack all those patches in that patchset, please?

And quickly answer if you pick up those patches or if they shall travel 
through the spdx tree.

Thanks,

Lukas