From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752838AbcEWBHM (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2016 21:07:12 -0400 Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.66]:11512 "EHLO szxga03-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752711AbcEWBHJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2016 21:07:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 00/21] Add HiSilicon RoCE driver To: Doug Ledford , Lijun Ou , , , , , , References: <1462849483-67927-1-git-send-email-oulijun@huawei.com> CC: , , , , , , , , , , From: "Wei Hu (Xavier)" Message-ID: <5742578E.5070601@huawei.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:06:22 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.57.115.113] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A090204.5742579B.0060,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2013-05-26 15:14:31, dmn=2013-03-21 17:37:32 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: eada4c60289ba3ffa635d83d0bf87131 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Doug Ledford We will modify the license description of the beginning of the code file in patch v8. Thanks Regards Wei Hu On 2016/5/14 5:09, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 05/09/2016 11:04 PM, Lijun Ou wrote: >> The HiSilicon Network Substem is a long term evolution IP which is >> supposed to be used in HiSilicon ICT SoCs. HNS (HiSilicon Network >> Sybsystem) also has a hardware support of performing RDMA with >> RoCEE. >> The driver for HiSilicon RoCEE(RoCE Engine) is a platform driver and >> will support mulitple versions of SOCs in future. This version of driver >> is meant to support Hip06 SoC(which confirms to RoCEEv1 hardware >> specifications). >> >> Changes v6 -> v7: >> 1. modify some type of parameter, use bool replace the original type. >> 2. add the Signed-off-by signatures in the first patch. >> 3. delete the improper print sentence in hns_roce_create_eq. > One thing you should be aware of (but which you may not care about, > which is fine) is that if you want your driver to be available as part > of the OpenFabric Alliances OFED distribution, the license on the files > would need to be "GPL or BSD" (see the remainder of the RDMA stack for > examples). If you don't want that license on your files, I'm fine with > that, and I won't hold up your submission based on the license. If, > however, you *do* want your code to be shipable as part of OFED, it is > much easier to update the license on the files before you submit them > and third parties modify them. If you want to change the license later, > you have to get every person that has made any substantive change to the > file to agree to the license change. > >