Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750748AbWHFWbl (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:31:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750749AbWHFWbl (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:31:41 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:6547 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750748AbWHFWbl (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:31:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rFJDYEvef5omxp6ESeIBDqFjbnuNuJRBTpgLSe44S8iIQ1mmiArA63TvIeHo3iBVnlxl3+vycPjh8m5wqPNnvjStp3WGJhWAV/5o1SAL/7Vw37MAbOSwCgrKL7f+DvaT/RQFzO/u3Vq0ZrkQ707R7iQn04EC5ITYETVoj1z8k7Y= Message-ID: <41840b750608061531u71940fdx3fbf71c0dfc68c26@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:31:39 +0300 From: "Shem Multinymous" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] thinkpad_ec: New driver for ThinkPad embedded controller access Cc: "Olaf Hering" , tytso@mit.edu, rlove@rlove.org, khali@linux-fr.org, gregkh@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20060806114004.ff472cff.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <11548492171301-git-send-email-multinymous@gmail.com> <11548492242899-git-send-email-multinymous@gmail.com> <20060806005613.01c5a56a.akpm@osdl.org> <41840b750608060256g1a7bb9c3s843d3ac08e512d63@mail.gmail.com> <20060806030749.ab49c887.akpm@osdl.org> <41840b750608060344p59293ce0xc75edfbd791b23c@mail.gmail.com> <20060806145551.GC30009@thunk.org> <20060806164013.GA7637@aepfle.de> <20060806114004.ff472cff.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1349 Lines: 28 On 8/6/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > And I'd say this patch series _is_ substantial because it pokes at > registers which might be described in confidential/NDA'ed documentation, or > in ways which might be derived from $OTHER_OS. For what it's worth to you: I hereby declare that this patch was developed solely based on public specifications, observation of hardware behavior by trial&eror, and specifications made available to me in clean-room settings and with no attached obligations. So this patch is as pure as the mainline hdaps driver it fixes (and probably purer than many other drivers), and not a single line of it is a derivative work of $OTHER_OS code. If it would help inspire trust, you can look at the tp_smapi revision history on sf.net, where many of those trials and errors are immortalized. As for the register poking, I believe all the code in thinkpad_ec.c logically follows from the publicly available H8S documentation (see link at the top of the sourcecode), except for one number (base port "0x1600") which is already given by the mainline hdaps driver. Shem - 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/