Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/ixgb/: possible cleanups

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:

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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

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