From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/ixgb/: possible cleanups Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 14:38:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20050507123814.GJ3590@stusta.de> References: <20050506211834.GM3590@stusta.de> <5fc59ff3050506153523cd12dd@mail.gmail.com> <1115468645.6388.37.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ganesh Venkatesan , ayyappan.veeraiyan@intel.com, ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Arjan van de Ven Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1115468645.6388.37.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:24:04PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 15:35 -0700, Ganesh Venkatesan wrote: > > Adrian: > > > > Some of your suggestions are already part of the driver we are > > currently testing. This was based partly on your Feb '05 patch. We > > will not be able to apply your patch as is since some of the changes > > are in part of code that is shared with other drivers that are not > > GPLd. > > this sounds really bad. > > Can you talk to the intel people in the ACPI group, they had a similar > issue before but were able to resolve it by a proper dual license > comment. It would be much preferable if people CAN do changes to the > entire driver... what's the point of having it open source otherwise ;) I'm not sure whether Ganesh was really talking about license issues, or whether the problem is that my patch #if 0's away code they use in other non-GPL'ed drivers. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed