From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Dan Carpenter" <error27@gmail.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:14:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110830181452.GA24769@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110830014257.GI15771@broadcom.com>
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 06:42:57PM -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> The brcmsmac driver has architectural alignment with our drivers for other
> operating systems, and we intend to to enhance and maintain this driver in
> parallel with drivers for other operating systems. Maintaining alignment
> between our Linux driver and drivers for other operating systems allows us to
> leverage feature and chip support across all platforms.
Just curious, if you really are going to try to do this, how are you
going to handle the issue when others change the in-kernel driver in
ways that you are not going to be allowed to make to your "internal"
copy of the driver?
Also, how are you going to handle any GPL-only changes that happen to
the code as well? Do you have some process in place to ensure that all
contributions will have the proper copyright releases on it to allow you
to make the same changes to your internal versions?
This all is a very difficult and time-consuming task, are you sure you
are all up to it and have properly discussed it with your legal team,
management team, and with the kernel community?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-30 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-07 0:20 [RFC] Move brcm80211 to mainline Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 0:40 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-07-07 0:58 ` Pavel Roskin
2011-07-07 1:45 ` Greg KH
2011-07-07 14:46 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 14:58 ` Greg KH
2011-07-07 21:55 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 22:04 ` Greg KH
2011-07-07 22:25 ` Pavel Roskin
2011-07-07 15:17 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-07-07 21:21 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 0:45 ` Pavel Roskin
2011-07-07 15:01 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 22:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 22:53 ` Greg KH
2011-08-24 23:17 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 23:47 ` Greg KH
2011-08-24 23:54 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-25 0:42 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 0:52 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-25 1:11 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 2:23 ` Greg KH
2011-08-25 2:45 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-25 5:02 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-30 21:54 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-30 22:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-24 23:05 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-25 0:49 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 23:10 ` Aaro Koskinen
2011-08-24 23:18 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 23:54 ` Aaro Koskinen
2011-08-24 23:41 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-08-25 0:20 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 8:53 ` Michael Büsch
2011-08-25 10:34 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-08-25 17:59 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 21:07 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-25 21:09 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-26 17:58 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 20:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-25 21:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-25 21:23 ` Larry Finger
2011-08-26 17:55 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-26 19:37 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-26 19:45 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 12:05 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 13:18 ` Michael Büsch
2011-08-27 13:58 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 13:02 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-27 14:35 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-27 14:50 ` Greg KH
2011-08-27 15:08 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 15:12 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 16:45 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2011-08-27 15:21 ` Greg KH
2011-08-27 15:27 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 1:42 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-30 4:28 ` Greg KH
2011-08-30 6:22 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-30 8:31 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 9:28 ` Michael Büsch
2011-08-31 12:31 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 6:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-10 16:48 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 18:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-08-31 17:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-31 18:33 ` Greg KH
2011-08-31 18:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-31 11:55 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2011-08-31 14:18 ` John W. Linville
2011-08-31 17:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-31 17:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-27 14:59 ` Rafał Miłecki
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2011-08-27 16:41 Xose Vazquez Perez
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