ide-2.5.68.patch

[Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>]

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LKML et al.

This patch is to promote Bartlomiej to a well earned position as the
Global IDE Maintainer, as I have stepped tp the side to handle the SATA
and vendor chipset issues.  My time here was to clean up the transport to
allow the simplicity of the protocol to be expressed.

If there is an issue where one believes I need tp be included in the
thread please CC me as I limit my reading of lkml directly.

This patch also addresses some text whose intent may be a restriction to
GPL; however, GPL itself is flawed as it relates to concatenation or
appending addition information to a binary program, be it a kernel or app.
whose current license status is GPL or LGPL.  With this in mind, I will
formally announce that all of my contributions to the kernel over the past
5 years or so are to be dual licensed in OSL/GPL format.  I would strongly
suggest any person who has a stake in the kernel to review OSL and
consider.

If anyone has an issue with this change, get over it.  If you can not get
over it, you can pay for the legal opinion for review.

Regards,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

The (retiring) Linux ATA/IDE guy

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diff -urN linux-2.5.68.pristine/MAINTAINERS linux-2.5.68/MAINTAINERS
--- linux-2.5.68.pristine/MAINTAINERS	Sat Apr 19 19:50:01 2003
+++ linux-2.5.68/MAINTAINERS	Wed Apr 23 13:20:16 2003
@@ -846,6 +846,9 @@
 S:	Supported 
 
 IDE DRIVER [GENERAL]
+P:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
+M:	B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl
+M:	bkz@linux-ide.org
 L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 L:	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
@@ -870,6 +873,13 @@
 L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 
+IDE/CHIPSETS AND TASKFILE TRANSPORT
+P:	Andre Hedrick
+M:	andre@linux-ide.org
+L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
+L:	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
+S:	Maintained
+
 IEEE 1394 SUBSYSTEM
 P:	Ben Collins
 M:	bcollins@debian.org
@@ -1590,6 +1600,12 @@
 M:	christer@weinigel.se
 W:	http://www.weinigel.se
 S:	Supported
+
+SERIAL ATA 1.0 AND II
+P:	Andre Hedrick
+M:	andre@serialata.org
+M:	andre@linux-ide.org
+S:	Maintained
 
 SGI VISUAL WORKSTATION 320 AND 540
 P:	Andrey Panin
diff -urN linux-2.5.68.pristine/drivers/ide/IDE.KEY.signing linux-2.5.68/drivers/ide/IDE.KEY.signing
--- linux-2.5.68.pristine/drivers/ide/IDE.KEY.signing	Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
+++ linux-2.5.68/drivers/ide/IDE.KEY.signing	Wed Apr 23 16:21:31 2003
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+
+The original text in ide-io.c
+
+/*
+ * For the avoidance of doubt the "preferred form" of this code is one which
+ * is in an open non patent encumbered format. Where cryptographic key signing
+ * forms part of the process of creating an executable the information
+ * including keys needed to generate an equivalently functional executable
+ * are deemed to be part of the source code.
+ */
+
+This issues are concerns for security signing of kernels.
+
+Since GPL covers the case of additional code added or liked to the program
+must also be GPL, well this is obvious ... BUT GPL has no language to handle
+concatenation or combined work.  This is a fatal flaw in GPL.
+
+This is an informative document, not a normative.
+
+See OSL attached.
+http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl.php
+http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-1.1.txt
+
+
+Andre Hedrick
+Linux ATA Development
+
diff -urN linux-2.5.68.pristine/drivers/ide/ide-io.c linux-2.5.68/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
--- linux-2.5.68.pristine/drivers/ide/ide-io.c	Sat Apr 19 19:50:39 2003
+++ linux-2.5.68/drivers/ide/ide-io.c	Wed Apr 23 12:47:05 2003
@@ -16,13 +16,8 @@
  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  * General Public License for more details.
  *
- * For the avoidance of doubt the "preferred form" of this code is one which
- * is in an open non patent encumbered format. Where cryptographic key signing
- * forms part of the process of creating an executable the information
- * including keys needed to generate an equivalently functional executable
- * are deemed to be part of the source code.
+ * SEE External file for concerns about "preferred form".
  */
- 
  
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>