Re: [PATCH V3] pinctrl: tegra: add suspend/resume support

[Stephen Warren <swarren-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>]

On 03/04/2013 05:13 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 07.11.2012 01:45, Stephen Warren пишет:
>> On 11/06/2012 01:06 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> 06.11.2012 21:38, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>>> OK, so only you and he have the binaries built from this repository? Or,
>>>> are those binaries distributed to other people too? If the binaries are
>>>> distributed, you need to distribute (or offer to make available) the
>>>> source too. See the GPL for exact requirements.
>>>
>>> I'm not against GPL, but for now repo is private. It's something like nvidia's
>>> private downstream kernel that I'm working on. Surely it will become public but
>>> bit later.
>>>
>>>> OK, so if I accept the private repo link, download the source, and
>>>> repost it on my github account, you're fine with that? If not, then
>>>> you're requesting something semantically equivalent to an NDA.
>>>
>>> For me it's not very important, but my companion may be unhappy with that. I
>>> just believe that you are not so evil. As I understand NDA should be some
>>> legally valid official document. I'm sure you are much better in this than me,
>>> so let's stop discussing it.
>>>
>>>> However, I'd ask that we resolve the distribution issues of the source
>>>> kernel first to avoid any tainting of the patch.
>>>
>>> I don't see any issues. It's my personal work that I'm contributing to the
>>> kernel community. If nvidia is against of any public contributions just tell me.
>>
>> NVIDIA and indeed the kernel community welcome public contributions.
>>
>> However, the rules in SubmittingPatches (as set by the kernel community,
>> not NVIDIA) are clear re: the licensing requirements for patches. If
>> you're taking the patches from a downstream kernel that's published as
>> binaries and not source, I believe that makes the patches non-compliant
>> (since there's a GPL violation in the downstream kernel, so the patches
>> can't be passed off as being GPL compliant), and hence your
>> signed-off-by line is not valid.
>>
>> Once the downstream kernel's source is publicly available, I imagine
>> there will be no problem accepting patches that are derived from it.
>>
> 
> Hello, Stephen. I made my recent work on kernel public and it's available
> at https://bitbucket.org/digetx/picasso-kernel/ It contains all patches that
> I have sent and has some small fixes that I will send later. Hope there is no
> problem anymore and you would like to continue reviewing my patches.

Sure. So long as you've read Documentation/SubmittingPatches, and fully
understood exactly what Signed-off-by means and the GPL, I have no
problem taking patches.

It's been a while, so I'd suggest reposting any patches.