From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
ayyappan.veeraiyan@intel.com, ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com,
john.ronciak@intel.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/ixgb/: possible cleanups
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 14:24:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115468645.6388.37.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5fc59ff3050506153523cd12dd@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 15:35 -0700, Ganesh Venkatesan wrote:
> Adrian:
>
> Some of your suggestions are already part of the driver we are
> currently testing. This was based partly on your Feb '05 patch. We
> will not be able to apply your patch as is since some of the changes
> are in part of code that is shared with other drivers that are not
> GPLd.
this sounds really bad.
Can you talk to the intel people in the ACPI group, they had a similar
issue before but were able to resolve it by a proper dual license
comment. It would be much preferable if people CAN do changes to the
entire driver... what's the point of having it open source otherwise ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-07 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-06 21:18 [2.6 patch] drivers/net/ixgb/: possible cleanups Adrian Bunk
2005-05-06 22:35 ` Ganesh Venkatesan
2005-05-07 12:24 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-05-07 12:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-07 13:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-07 12:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-18 18:38 Venkatesan, Ganesh
2005-02-17 20:52 Adrian Bunk
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