From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from forward7l.mail.yandex.net ([84.201.143.140]:34234 "EHLO forward7l.mail.yandex.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754105AbaAGXuY (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jan 2014 18:50:24 -0500 Message-ID: <52CC90FB.3060102@narod.ru> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 01:42:51 +0200 From: CrazyCat MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konstantin Dimitrov , Luis Alves CC: Andreas Regel , linux-media , Chris Lee , Manu Abraham , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Antti Palosaari Subject: Re: Upstreaming SAA716x driver to the media_tree References: <52CC275B.5030907@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Konstantin Dimitrov пишет: > so, i was waiting Manu to upstream his SAA716x driver code some day > and then submit the improvements i made to it. yet again you're trying > to take that from me and again, conveniently you included many people > on CC, but not me. it's ok :) and stop compile binary blobs for TBS :) like 'stupid' binaries for LNB power control and init for 6925/5925 :) > in my opinion what you're doing is not right, because that patch is > not clean-room reverse-engineering, you just took those changes from > another open-source base and if nothing else it's at least common > courtesy in open-source community when you didn't make them to not > submit them as "your" patches. this is open-source world :) > i also think with your actions you're actually hurting the community, > because people like me, that do actually have the technical > understanding and can help and contribute further improvements are > driven away from the community, because > effectively the community accepting behavior like yours is encouraging > code stealing!! what stealed code ??? :) if you want write closed-source drivers for windose - make it ! :)