Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932241AbVLDPII (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:08:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932244AbVLDPII (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:08:08 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:28644 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932241AbVLDPIH (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:08:07 -0500 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:08:04 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Matthias Andree , Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel Message-ID: <20051204150804.GA17846@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Arjan van de Ven , Linux-Kernel mailing list References: <20051203162755.GA31405@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133630556.22170.26.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051203230520.GJ25722@merlin.emma.line.org> <43923DD9.8020301@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20051204121209.GC15577@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133699555.5188.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204132813.GA4769@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133703338.5188.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204142551.GB4769@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133707855.5188.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1133707855.5188.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1010 Lines: 31 On Sun, 04 Dec 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > As I say, these aren't licensed for inclusion into the kernel, they bear > > a (C) Copyright notice and "All rights reserved." > > and > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > > so it *IS* gpl licensed! > > the code is a bit horrible though and no surprise it breaks ;) Yes. "extern type foo; static type foo;" is way stupid, but 10% of the blame can be shifted on the GCC guys for being much too tolerant. > you can always make drivers broken enough to break at the slightest > change ;) > > (it also seems to contain an entire ipmi layer, linux already has one so > I wonder why they're not just using that as basis) Perhaps the dates give a clue. Since when has Linux had IPMI in the baseline code? -- Matthias Andree - 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/