Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932082Ab0K3Tal (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:30:41 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:54553 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753941Ab0K3Tak (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:30:40 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=xtGdxSJB/2g+pFCt0nDKWnSahEfN/v1t9mNqmgwLYBUTYxPfInQosyzX9W/jSWtMpR +bb2bSA/tlxTttyPtFUVqB61KHHgnwcNxTa8Y+ueOrfkSB/oJwcgKRAgN9dVnS3lFFoo L1b0G1ovkmRV4WqPjLTG+/0tYGoAEaaYxcOhM= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101130192648.GA1623@ucw.cz> References: <20101118113441.74fcdc21@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101130192648.GA1623@ucw.cz> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:30:18 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: DcHSiAXThOacz6NMTHRptcKF9Bc Message-ID: Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first To: Pavel Machek , bkuhn@ebb.org Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless , Greg KH , David Miller , "John W. Linville" , Stephen Hemminger , "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , Charles Marker , Jouni Malinen , Kevin Hayes , Zhifeng Cai , Don Breslin , Doug Dahlby , Julia Lawall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 23 On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >> >> everything else can be independent code. For ath9k in particular this >> >> means we keep ath9k_hw shared between our Operating Systems and that's >> >> it. In addition to this I believe opening up the common drivers for >> > >> > The Linux copy needs to be GPL, >> >> GPL-Compatible you mean, right. I mean we have ath9k_hw with >> permissive licensed files. > > GPL-compatible is not right word. It has to be either GPL, or so > permissive that anyone is allowed to turn it into GPL. Oh? Luis -- 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/