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SubjectRe: DRM drivers with closed source user-space: WAS [Patch 0/3] Resubmit VIA Chrome9 DRM via_chrome9 for upstream
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 15:38 +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote:
>
>> Politics:
>> It's true that sometimes some people don't like the code or what it
>> does. But when this is the underlying cause of NAK-ing a driver I think
>> it's very important that this is clearly stated, instead of inventing
>> various random reasons that can easily be argued against. How should the
>> driver writer otherwise get it right? Man-years might be spent fixing up
>> drivers that will never get upstream anyway.
>>
>> I think it would help a lot of there was a documented set of driver
>> features that were required and sufficient for a DRM driver to go
>> upstream. It could look something like
>>
>> * Kernel coding style obeyed. Passing checkpatch.
>>
>
> * fully functional GPL user-space driver.
>
> How can you argue that something as tailor made as a DRM interface can
> be used without it being a derived work?
>
> FWIW my full vote goes against allowing such thing to happen, and I
> think quite a lot of kernel people would agree with me.
>
> I would hope enough of of them would so that we can stop this from
> happening.
>
> Negative karma points to you for trying to chip away at the spirit of
>

As stated before this was a suggestion to clarify the field for driver
writers.

If the documented set of driver features required is fully open-source
so be it. Just let people know.

/Thomas


> Linux.
>



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