From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wei Hu (Xavier)" Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 00/21] Add HiSilicon RoCE driver Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:06:22 +0800 Message-ID: <5742578E.5070601@huawei.com> References: <1462849483-67927-1-git-send-email-oulijun@huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Doug Ledford , Lijun Ou , sean.hefty-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, hal.rosenstock-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, jiri-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, ogerlitz-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, gongyangming-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, xiaokun-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, tangchaofei-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, haifeng.wei-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, yisen.zhuang-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, yankejian-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, charles.chenxin-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linuxarm-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Hi, Doug Ledford We will modify the license description of the beginning of the code file in patch v8. Thanks Regards Wei Hu On 2016/5/14 5:09, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 05/09/2016 11:04 PM, Lijun Ou wrote: >> The HiSilicon Network Substem is a long term evolution IP which is >> supposed to be used in HiSilicon ICT SoCs. HNS (HiSilicon Network >> Sybsystem) also has a hardware support of performing RDMA with >> RoCEE. >> The driver for HiSilicon RoCEE(RoCE Engine) is a platform driver and >> will support mulitple versions of SOCs in future. This version of driver >> is meant to support Hip06 SoC(which confirms to RoCEEv1 hardware >> specifications). >> >> Changes v6 -> v7: >> 1. modify some type of parameter, use bool replace the original type. >> 2. add the Signed-off-by signatures in the first patch. >> 3. delete the improper print sentence in hns_roce_create_eq. > One thing you should be aware of (but which you may not care about, > which is fine) is that if you want your driver to be available as part > of the OpenFabric Alliances OFED distribution, the license on the files > would need to be "GPL or BSD" (see the remainder of the RDMA stack for > examples). If you don't want that license on your files, I'm fine with > that, and I won't hold up your submission based on the license. If, > however, you *do* want your code to be shipable as part of OFED, it is > much easier to update the license on the files before you submit them > and third parties modify them. If you want to change the license later, > you have to get every person that has made any substantive change to the > file to agree to the license change. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html