From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751451AbcBJXjb (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:39:31 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42312 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751160AbcBJXj3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:39:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ACPI: parse the SPCR table To: Aleksey Makarov , Peter Hurley , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org References: <1453722324-22407-1-git-send-email-aleksey.makarov@linaro.org> <56A6494E.3090303@hurleysoftware.com> <56A8B570.2060501@linaro.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Graeme Gregory , Russell King , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , Leif Lindholm From: Al Stone X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56BBCA2F.3020604@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:39:27 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56A8B570.2060501@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/27/2016 05:17 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote: > > > On 01/25/2016 07:11 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: >> On 01/25/2016 03:45 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote: >>> This patchset is based on the patchset by Leif Lindholm [1] >>> >>> 'ARM Server Base Boot Requirements' [2] mention SPCR >>> (Serial Port Console Redirection Table) [3] as a mandatory >>> ACPI table that specifies the configuration of serial console. >>> >>> Licensing concerns have prevented implementing it in the past, but as of >>> 10 August 2015, these tables have both been released also under >>> OWF 1.0 [4]. >> >> This license has a patent retaliation provision, which makes it >> incompatible with GPLv2. >> >> *If the license applies to this code*, then this patch set does not >> meet the criteria for submission. > > The license applies not to this code but to the document describing the tables. Just for the record, the SPCR table struct definition has been part of the Linux kernel since at least commit b24aad44 on 2009-07-24 (line 1112 of include/acpi/actbl2.h) -- or so git blame tells me. -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. ahs3@redhat.com -----------------------------------