From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:26:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:26:12 -0400 Received: from mail.medav.de ([213.95.12.190]:39693 "HELO mail.medav.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:26:04 -0400 From: "Daniela Engert" To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Cc: "Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai" Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:24:46 +0200 (CDT) Reply-To: "Daniela Engert" X-Mailer: PMMail 2.00.1500 for OS/2 Warp 4.00 In-Reply-To: <20010926161613.V4995@daemon.ninth-circle.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: Re: Comments on Andre's posting Message-Id: <20010926143012.363B166DA@mail.medav.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! As the developer of the OS/2 ATA/ATAPI drivers I'd like to add a few comments. On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:16:13 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >3) Also, I have had contacts with Highpoint and Promise a long while now I've learned Highpoint being very helpful but Promise being extremely tight-lipped. > And quite frankly I have to laugh that you had to sign a NDA. Good point! > Promise and Highpoint Technologies were quite willing to hand us the > documentation without an NDA. We just felt it was the honourable > thing to do to not spread these docs. Call it a matter of trust and > mutual respect. So did I with manufacturer docs I was given. >4) 48-bit addressing is already in the pipeline since Soren has the > official specifications from the t13 Technical Committee [which for > all I know, are freely downloadable]. True. There are no secrets. >For some reason I cannot help but put big questionmarks behind Andre's >exclamation that he was so quick to add ATA-100 after release of the >information. Congratulations to you Andre for being so quick, I hope >your eagerness for speed doesn't in fact put stability in jeopardy. Exactly. Andre: your Promise Ultra100 TX2 code is not correct. It should not base vital decisions on contents of non-existent registers. >Also, funny how you seem to funnel your anger or something to that >extent into making sure everything gets licensed in such a way that >others cannot use it. If that is the free software spirit you envision >then you scared me. The only, reasonable, thing Soren asked for was >proper attribution and credit of/for work he performed and work which >was put under a BSD License. To be honest, if a BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, >OpenBSD) would've used GPLd code and filed off the copyright we would've >seen a large rant about how unethical the BSD developers are, the pinko >commies! Well, I had to learn Andre is using code that I had developped and given to him verbatim in his drivers without any credits. But I just don't care. If it's to the benefit of the Linux users (and probably even more) I'm happy with that. My policy in helping other developers is something like tit-for-tat. Let's share information, let's share experiences (there are so many bugs/issues in the hardware to deal with), let's help each other! Ciao, Dani (The OS/2 ATA/ATAPI gal) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniela Engert, systems engineer at MEDAV GmbH Gräfenberger Str. 34, 91080 Uttenreuth, Germany Phone ++49-9131-583-348, Fax ++49-9131-583-11