Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/ixgb/: possible cleanups | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sat, 07 May 2005 14:24:04 +0200 |
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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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