From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] Xenon support From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Josh Boyer In-Reply-To: <1173301611.5799.38.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> References: <20070307180144.812594000@elitedvb.net> > <1173301611.5799.38.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:48:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1173347325.8635.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:06 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 19:01 +0100, Felix Domke wrote: > > This series of patches add support for the Xbox 360 gaming console. > > > > Note that these patches were written by different people, who want > > to remain anonymous. These drivers were written without hardware > > documentation being available. > > Taking anonymous contributions to the kernel goes against the > Developer's Certificate of Origin. Are you sure you can certify it's > origin and are willing to take responsibility for the code? > > Personally, I'd NAK this whole series. The whole serie can't be merged anyway, the patches aren't in good enough shape. Regarding the legal status I think the serie can't be merged at least not by any of the maintainer for the reason you mention. What should happen at this stage is that somebody writes a documentation of the hardware based on those patches and somebody else writes patches based on that documentation. The fact that the initial patches were posted publically make the process a bit harder but still somewhat possible (if the final code is obviously not inherited from the original one in any way). Ben.