From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753836AbZBOPYU (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:24:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752221AbZBOPYL (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:24:11 -0500 Received: from zone0.gcu-squad.org ([212.85.147.21]:29667 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751715AbZBOPYK (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:24:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:23:59 +0100 From: Jean Delvare To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Shem Multinymous , Frank Seidel , linux kernel , akpm@linux-foundation.org, rlove@rlove.org, protasnb@gmail.com, Michael Ruoss , Dmitry Torokhov , Tim Gardner , Frank Seidel Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon/hdaps: Fix bug 7154 inversion of separate axis Message-ID: <20090215162359.763b3918@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20090215134115.GA21670@srcf.ucam.org> References: <499569A9.5030202@suse.de> <41840b750902141632l5c4bd705m1b528900466a25fd@mail.gmail.com> <20090215102707.174e770f@hyperion.delvare> <20090215134115.GA21670@srcf.ucam.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:41:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:27:07AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:32:02 -0500, Shem Multinymous wrote: > > > See the table at the bottom of the tp_smapi page > > > (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi), or hdaps.c inside the > > > tp_smapi package, for more model-specific information. > > > It would be nice if you made the interface (constants and their > > > meaning) the same as in the tp_smapi version of hdaps, which is > > > already widely deployed and packaged by several distros. > > > > Why is this code not upstream? Ah yeah, I remember now: because it was > > written by an anonymous developer, which makes the contribution legally > > dubious. Copying such code into the upstream version of hdaps would be > > no different, so we cannot do that, sorry. > > You're arguing that sysfs interfaces are copyrightable? I'm not arguing anything. I'll let you, Shame Multithing and anyone else with too much spare time argue whatever you want. Me, I have many more useful things to do. Thanks but no thanks, -- Jean Delvare