Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932651Ab1CDWTv (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:19:51 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40746 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932445Ab1CDWTu (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:19:50 -0500 Message-ID: <4D71657A.4060604@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:19:38 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: David Johnston , tytso@mit.edu, richard.weinberger@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de Subject: Re: Why is my copyright code in the linux kernel? References: <20110301235433.GD2959@thunk.org> <4D6EBC04.5050709@zytor.com> <4D7078C8.8050009@deadhat.com> <4D70880C.4000209@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1294 Lines: 36 On 03/04/2011 02:16 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 03/03/2011 09:29 PM, David Johnston wrote: >>> Yes I am willing to allow you to retain it. >>> I guess, to be all legalese.. >>> I herein permit you to use any 802.11 related C code taken from the >>> www.deadhat.com website, in the linux kernel, and to publish it under >>> the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License. >>> >>> Yes I've emailed ralink and VIA. I hope they're nice people. >> >> First of all, thank you (both for the code and for being reasonable.) >> >> It sounds like this might simply have been an honest misreading. >> > > interesting. > > in the git history, some functions take IN/OUT macro. > > -VOID AES_GTK_KEY_UNWRAP(IN UCHAR * key, > - OUT UCHAR * plaintext, > - IN UINT32 c_len, IN UCHAR * ciphertext) > > so they had driver for other os at first, and ported that one to Linux later ? > It's a staging driver for a reason... -hpa -- 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/