From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Cc: James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, willy@linux.intel.com,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] advansys: use request_firmware
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:32:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081220153258.GU19967@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229786727.15438.5.camel@jaswinder.satnam>
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:55:27PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> diff --git a/firmware/WHENCE b/firmware/WHENCE
> index 299301f..27105bc 100644
> --- a/firmware/WHENCE
> +++ b/firmware/WHENCE
> @@ -363,3 +363,16 @@ Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked:
> Copyright (C) 2001 Qlogic Corporation (www.qlogic.com)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +Driver: SCSI_ADVANSYS - AdvanSys SCSI
> +
> +File: advansys/mcode.bin
> +File: advansys/3550.bin
> +File: advansys/38C0800.bin
> +File: advansys/38C1600.bin
> +
> +Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible.
> +
> +Found in hex form in kernel source.
I thought we discussed this before. If you take it from an earlier
version of the driver, you can get it under a disjunction of BSD and
GPL, and take the BSD option.
As far as I know, no source code has been published.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-20 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-20 15:25 [PATCH] advansys: use request_firmware Jaswinder Singh
2008-12-20 15:32 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-12-20 16:02 ` Jaswinder Singh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-11 9:58 Jaswinder Singh
2008-07-12 16:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-12 17:09 ` Jaswinder Singh
2008-07-14 14:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-14 14:56 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-14 15:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-14 15:22 ` David Woodhouse
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