Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262072AbTIPTe6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:34:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262468AbTIPTe6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:34:58 -0400 Received: from gprs151-26.eurotel.cz ([160.218.151.26]:1923 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262072AbTIPTez (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:34:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:34:41 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andries Brouwer , "J.A. Magallon" , LKML Subject: Re: libata update posted Message-ID: <20030916193440.GE602@elf.ucw.cz> References: <3F628DC7.3040308@pobox.com> <20030913205652.GA3478@werewolf.able.es> <20030913212849.GB21426@gtf.org> <20030914111225.A3371@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <3F64A4BD.6030906@pobox.com> <20030914213821.A11134@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <3F64CB08.9010506@pobox.com> <20030914230922.B11134@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <3F64DF50.3000307@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F64DF50.3000307@pobox.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1341 Lines: 30 Hi! > >I am a mathematician, and some of my generated files take weeks > >of computation. Maybe once they are available one no longer > >wants to regard them as generated files. Something similar holds > >for files generated by software that is not widely available. > >Maybe the software is commercial. Maybe it only runs on a > >different architecture. Or maybe it was a specially patched version. > >In the case of defkeymap.c (where nothing has changed for > >over five years), when a key type is added, it is generated > >by a private version that is not widely available. > >For Linus or whoever makes distributions, who does not possess > >the software required to generate defkeymap.c, it is just a > >source file.) > > Well, if an auto-generated file in the kernel is not generated by a > program that is itself open source, that's IMO a problem. GPL's > "preferred form" and all. Actually, that's okay. Source code for proprietary compiler is *still* prefered form for editing. Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/