Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262480AbVDLPSY (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:18:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262466AbVDLPPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:15:30 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:59830 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262462AbVDLPNe (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:13:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:13:32 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Kilau, Scott" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Ihalainen Nickolay , admin@list.net.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wen Xiong Subject: Re: Digi Neo 8: linux-2.6.12_r2 jsm driver Message-ID: <20050412151332.GA10752@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "Kilau, Scott" , Ihalainen Nickolay , admin@list.net.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wen Xiong References: <335DD0B75189FB428E5C32680089FB9F038FBB@mtk-sms-mail01.digi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <335DD0B75189FB428E5C32680089FB9F038FBB@mtk-sms-mail01.digi.com> 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: 1677 Lines: 43 On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:55:10AM -0500, Kilau, Scott wrote: > We (Digi) cares. > > We want people to use our DGNC driver over the JSM driver in all > cases except the 2 port model of the board. And we (kernel developers) don't care what drivers digi wants people to use. We empower people to use free software with whatever hardware can be supported. Our drivers are often not from vendors at all, and even when vendor drivers exist we often support better (in our opinion) drivers > > This is because the DGNC driver contains extra features that the JSM > driver > Has stripped out, to get into the kernel sources, > and our other customers WANT these features! There are people who just want the card supported. There's no reason to deny the driver to them. > We cannot have a situation where the JSM driver takes control of the PCI > card > before the DGNC driver can take it first! Sure, we can have the situation easily. If you want us to care for your other driver make sure it's submitted for kernel inclusion. > Please, do *NOT* add this patch!!! > > Do I, as a copyright holder on the code in question, have any rights at > all, > or are you just going to trample over my wishes, in your zeal? You do have lots of rights. But as you put the code under the GPL we do have rights aswell now, and one of the most important rights you gave us is to modify and redistribute the code under the terms of the GPL. - 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/