Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22T23:10:36Z

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:39:26PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> By that I assume you mean osl-1.1 like libata.c, rather than GPL
> like ata_piix.c....

Yep :)

> I expect I may be copying bits and pieces
> from the Promise driver though. Certainly I'd like to use as
> much of their header files as seems practical. So it may very
> well need to stay GPL'd. But I'll see what I can do.

Thanks. If you are so motivated, I tend to think it can work without
the Promise headers. For example, there is a distinct naming scheme in
libata, and also intentional use of enums rather than macros as
constants.

However, that said, you're doing the work, so I'll let you make the call :)

Jeff