From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@gmail.com>,
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, 7 May 2005 14:38:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050507123814.GJ3590@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115468645.6388.37.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:24:04PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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 ;)
I'm not sure whether Ganesh was really talking about license issues, or
whether the problem is that my patch #if 0's away code they use in other
non-GPL'ed drivers.
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-07 12:38 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
2005-05-07 12:38 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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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