From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/acpi/: possible cleanups Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:39:29 +0000 Message-ID: <20050130173929.GA32014@infradead.org> References: <20050127110125.GE28047@stusta.de> <1106867060.2400.2297.camel@d845pe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1106867060.2400.2297.camel@d845pe> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Adrian Bunk , Alexey Y Starikovskiy , Robert Moore , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ACPI Developers List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:04:20PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > I've already asked Bob Moore to migrate to the use of static in the > interpreter. There are some somewhat urgent functional issues he needs > to focus on first, but static is on the list. If we allow him to do it > upstream (w/o looking at your patch), then we can avoid a fork in the > core interpreter code. > > At the same time, the non "R. Byron Moore" files, such as those in > drivers/acpi, but not in the lower sub-directories, are straight GPL and > I'll be happy to accept patches to those files immediately. Note that > there are 4 straight GPL files in include/acpi as well -- so like the > drivers/acpi/* files, we can modify them any time when cleanups are > appropriate in the Linux release cycle. The files are licensed under a BSD license so all patches against it are aswell unless explicitly marked.