Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] Xenon support

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:06 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 19:01 +0100, Felix Domke wrote:

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This series of patches add support for the Xbox 360 gaming console.

Note that these patches were written by different people, who want
to remain anonymous. These drivers were written without hardware 
documentation being available.

Taking anonymous contributions to the kernel goes against the
Developer's Certificate of Origin.  Are you sure you can certify it's
origin and are willing to take responsibility for the code?

Personally, I'd NAK this whole series.

The whole serie can't be merged anyway, the patches aren't in good
enough shape.

Regarding the legal status I think the serie can't be merged at least
not by any of the maintainer for the reason you mention.

What should happen at this stage is that somebody writes a documentation
of the hardware based on those patches and somebody else writes patches
based on that documentation.

The fact that the initial patches were posted publically make the
process a bit harder but still somewhat possible (if the final code is
obviously not inherited from the original one in any way).

Ben.