From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932387AbVLPTOA (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:14:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932413AbVLPTOA (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:14:00 -0500 Received: from mexforward.lss.emc.com ([168.159.213.200]:58034 "EHLO mexforward.lss.emc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932387AbVLPTN7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:13:59 -0500 Message-ID: <43A2E797.9000604@emc.com> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:13:11 -0500 From: Ric Wheeler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig , Martin Schwidefsky CC: akpm@osdl.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "saparnis, carol" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dasd: remove dynamic ioctl registration References: <20051216143348.GB19541@lst.de> <1134745099.5495.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051216150058.GA20144@lst.de> <1134750741.5495.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051216163825.GA21977@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20051216163825.GA21977@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075, Antispam-Engine: 2.1.0.0, Antispam-Data: 2005.12.16.21 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=, SPAM=0%, Reasons='EMC_BODY_1+ -5, EMC_FROM_00+ -3, DATE_IN_PAST_03_06! 1.0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>Ok understood, but at least I have warn the EMC people about that change >>so that they can send a patch for the dasd driver .. > > > Sure, at this patch is a 2.6.16 thing, which is more than enough time > for them. I'm happy to review any code they submit for kernel > inclusion. > Hi Martin, I am going to work with Carol (cc'ed below) to put out the module code that we have under GPL. We need to run it through our EMC (relatively newish) open source process to get official permission, but I don't expect any big hurdles. Are you the right person for Carol to work with on the code structure, style, etc once we get the green light to move forward? Regards, ric