Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753889AbZGTOFa (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:05:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753715AbZGTOF3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:05:29 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:44072 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753268AbZGTOF2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:05:28 -0400 Subject: Re: DRM drivers with closed source user-space: WAS [Patch 0/3] Resubmit VIA Chrome9 DRM via_chrome9 for upstream From: Peter Zijlstra To: Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hellstr=F6m?= Cc: DRI , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <4A647358.1040009@shipmail.org> References: <4A647358.1040009@shipmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:06:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1248098773.15751.8908.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1422 Lines: 33 On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 15:38 +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote: > Politics: > It's true that sometimes some people don't like the code or what it > does. But when this is the underlying cause of NAK-ing a driver I think > it's very important that this is clearly stated, instead of inventing > various random reasons that can easily be argued against. How should the > driver writer otherwise get it right? Man-years might be spent fixing up > drivers that will never get upstream anyway. > > I think it would help a lot of there was a documented set of driver > features that were required and sufficient for a DRM driver to go > upstream. It could look something like > > * Kernel coding style obeyed. Passing checkpatch. * fully functional GPL user-space driver. How can you argue that something as tailor made as a DRM interface can be used without it being a derived work? FWIW my full vote goes against allowing such thing to happen, and I think quite a lot of kernel people would agree with me. I would hope enough of of them would so that we can stop this from happening. Negative karma points to you for trying to chip away at the spirit of Linux. -- 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/