| To: | Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/ixgb/: possible cleanups |
| From: | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 07 May 2005 14:24:04 +0200 |
| Cc: | Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>, ayyappan.veeraiyan@xxxxxxxxx, ganesh.venkatesan@xxxxxxxxx, john.ronciak@xxxxxxxxx, jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <5fc59ff3050506153523cd12dd@mail.gmail.com> |
| References: | <20050506211834.GM3590@stusta.de> <5fc59ff3050506153523cd12dd@mail.gmail.com> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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 ;) |
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