Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754216AbYGHFcf (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:32:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751076AbYGHFc2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:32:28 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.231]:42796 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750914AbYGHFc1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:32:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=KcGnEzMXoCn0Dg86mo58fzIFDd/sIh2HFl7tDgEHmLjenfl1J1RALJlkBRzKfTg3z9 +7s2JVFGMXDMVSv42slqxLXE4hHSMQ+nOQFm7/hqew3Rov5EWYN+u0V2ycPZz2ptj5Ys rkGpabD/ZsDAC0RG7U95VXsYhlNhpMDPTDO3U= Message-ID: <2c0942db0807072232q28e68cf4r32efff5fb48a9dbe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:32:26 -0700 From: "Ray Lee" To: david@lang.hm Subject: Re: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver Cc: "Altobelli, David" , "Pavel Machek" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "greg@kroah.com" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080623160052.GA7616@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20080627191458.GA10872@ucw.cz> <20080707160658.GB1794@elf.ucw.cz> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 978bac562b47b0ff Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 15 On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:41 PM, wrote: >> The message packets and documention are owned by hardware teams, >> and they currently do not want to make that documentation public. > > umm, by merging the code a you reveal a lot of what they are attempting to > keep secret. what's to stop someone from reading the code and writing the > documentation? I don't think you've read their driver. It presents barely more structure to userspace than read and write. -- 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/