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From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] is it worth contributing a SATA SIL3512 driver to u-boot?
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:19:16 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1512101518110.3369@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5AvLr=DAvNyKLEK6fdUOBOnprRxWxvydW0tQa-m7aLn_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Fabio Estevam wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   on current project, someone handed me a patch containing (among
> > other thigns) source and header files for support for SATA SIL3512 --
> > copyright shows they're under GPL. rather than carrying around that
> > part of the patch, is it worth simply handing that over to u-boot to
> > add under drivers/block/?
>
> Yes, feel free to submit it, but please make sure there is an user for
> this driver as well.

  well, the contract i'm working on will be using it for porting linux
to a *lot* of older platforms so, technically, i'm that user. :-)

rday

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-10 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-10 18:14 [U-Boot] is it worth contributing a SATA SIL3512 driver to u-boot? Robert P. J. Day
2015-12-10 18:56 ` Fabio Estevam
2015-12-10 20:19   ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2015-12-10 21:23     ` Fabio Estevam
2015-12-10 21:25       ` Robert P. J. Day
2015-12-11 12:16       ` Robert P. J. Day
2015-12-11 12:37         ` Michal Suchanek
2015-12-13 13:37       ` Robert P. J. Day
2015-12-13 18:34         ` Fabio Estevam

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