From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:06:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081106160641.GA26883@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B27EBC40D200ED48A3F4CC2EBEABAE0B2331C08F@orsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:28:57AM -0800, Dugger, Donald D wrote:
> The Linux driver has over 600
> lines of customized code for over 100 different devices
> to do this task. Trying to duplicate that code from
> scratch is rather unfeasible.
Before we continue, did you check if that code in particular is GPLv2 only
or "or later"? I think most drivers in Linux are in fact "or later".
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-06 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 0:38 [PATCH] PCI serial card support donald.d.dugger
2008-11-04 15:39 ` Robert Millan
2008-11-04 18:24 ` Dugger, Donald D
2008-11-05 9:58 ` Robert Millan
2008-11-05 15:37 ` Dugger, Donald D
2008-11-06 15:02 ` Robert Millan
2008-11-06 15:28 ` Dugger, Donald D
2008-11-06 16:06 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-11-06 16:30 ` Dugger, Donald D
2008-11-06 17:00 ` Dugger, Donald D
2008-11-07 16:07 ` n0ano
2008-11-07 16:52 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-08 11:25 ` Robert Millan
2008-11-08 12:23 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-08 12:45 ` Robert Millan
2008-11-08 14:00 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-09 1:58 ` n0ano
2008-11-09 21:57 ` Robert Millan
2008-11-09 22:13 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-09 22:14 ` n0ano
2008-11-12 18:58 ` n0ano
2008-11-13 18:05 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-13 20:13 ` n0ano
2008-11-14 19:24 ` n0ano
2008-11-22 2:53 ` Neo Jia
2008-11-22 7:18 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-04 18:26 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-04 18:38 ` Dugger, Donald D
2009-07-21 8:11 ` tony.gugo
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