Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753952AbYLTPdS (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:33:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752098AbYLTPdB (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:33:01 -0500 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:52669 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752016AbYLTPdA (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:33:00 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:32:58 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Jaswinder Singh Cc: James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, willy@linux.intel.com, LKML , David Woodhouse , sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] advansys: use request_firmware Message-ID: <20081220153258.GU19967@parisc-linux.org> References: <1229786727.15438.5.camel@jaswinder.satnam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1229786727.15438.5.camel@jaswinder.satnam> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1367 Lines: 37 On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:55:27PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > diff --git a/firmware/WHENCE b/firmware/WHENCE > index 299301f..27105bc 100644 > --- a/firmware/WHENCE > +++ b/firmware/WHENCE > @@ -363,3 +363,16 @@ Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked: > Copyright (C) 2001 Qlogic Corporation (www.qlogic.com) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > + > +Driver: SCSI_ADVANSYS - AdvanSys SCSI > + > +File: advansys/mcode.bin > +File: advansys/3550.bin > +File: advansys/38C0800.bin > +File: advansys/38C1600.bin > + > +Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. > + > +Found in hex form in kernel source. I thought we discussed this before. If you take it from an earlier version of the driver, you can get it under a disjunction of BSD and GPL, and take the BSD option. As far as I know, no source code has been published. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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/