From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Re: [COORDINATE] INIC-1620TA/1622TA2/1623TA2 SATA controllers from initio Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:13:01 +0000 Message-ID: <20061201121301.6db615df@localhost.localdomain> References: <43D646C2.6040104@gmail.com> <456F7E17.6050301@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:46507 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030820AbWLAMGC (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:06:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <456F7E17.6050301@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Matthias Urlichs , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:57:59 +0900 Tejun Heo wrote: > Yeah, I saw that. The problem with the driver is that it doesn't > contain any license notice. I'm not sure if it would be okay to read > the driver and use the acquired info to implement GPL driver. I asked > sunix about it but got no useful answer. Its clearly based on some of the GPL IDE controller code and blocks of it are cut/pasted. If you want to write the driver then I'm happy to write the description of the device. It's basically an SFF device with MMIO on BAR5 Alan