Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261746AbVA3Rjf (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:39:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261747AbVA3Rjf (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:39:35 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:39577 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261746AbVA3Rjd (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:39:33 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:39:29 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Len Brown Cc: Adrian Bunk , Alexey Y Starikovskiy , Robert Moore , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ACPI Developers Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/acpi/: possible cleanups Message-ID: <20050130173929.GA32014@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Len Brown , Adrian Bunk , Alexey Y Starikovskiy , Robert Moore , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ACPI Developers References: <20050127110125.GE28047@stusta.de> <1106867060.2400.2297.camel@d845pe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1106867060.2400.2297.camel@d845pe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 22 On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:04:20PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > I've already asked Bob Moore to migrate to the use of static in the > interpreter. There are some somewhat urgent functional issues he needs > to focus on first, but static is on the list. If we allow him to do it > upstream (w/o looking at your patch), then we can avoid a fork in the > core interpreter code. > > At the same time, the non "R. Byron Moore" files, such as those in > drivers/acpi, but not in the lower sub-directories, are straight GPL and > I'll be happy to accept patches to those files immediately. Note that > there are 4 straight GPL files in include/acpi as well -- so like the > drivers/acpi/* files, we can modify them any time when cleanups are > appropriate in the Linux release cycle. The files are licensed under a BSD license so all patches against it are aswell unless explicitly marked. - 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/