On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:24:51PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Llu, 2006-06-05 am 09:27 -0400, ysgrifennodd John W. Linville:
> > Does not the Signed-off-by: line on a patch submission give us some
> > level of "good faith" protection?
> >
> > I'm tempted to take contributors at their word, that t
Hi!
> > > It's just that a cleanroom approach is a sure way to prove
> > > you didn't copy. That's all.
> >
> > Which is an extremely important detail especially if you have been
> > reverse engineering another driver for the same or similar OS where it
> > is likely that people will retain know
Ar Llu, 2006-06-05 am 09:27 -0400, ysgrifennodd John W. Linville:
> Does not the Signed-off-by: line on a patch submission give us some
> level of "good faith" protection?
>
> I'm tempted to take contributors at their word, that they have produced
> their own work and not copied from others. What
> Of course, I didn't know there were serious concerns about this
> driver's origin. I hope we aren't confusing this with the atheros
> driver...?
>
> > Please don't let this reverse engineering idiocy hinder wireless driver
> > adoption, we're already falling far behind openbsd who are very suc
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:27:37AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Actually, I was planning to merge the softmac-based version for 2.6.18.
> It looks like I may want some of Andrew's patches on top (ia64, alpha, etc).
duh, didn't know that wasn't in -mm. we want the softmac version of course.
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On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:54:51AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:06:36PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > acx1xx-wireless-driver.patch
> > > fix-tiacx-on-alpha.patch
> > > tiacx-fix-attribute-packed-war
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 02:48:27PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Why is it a good thing you are blocking this driver? Do you have ANY
> indication AT ALL that there is anything fishy about it?
Yes.
> Paying attention to proper reverse engineering is good. Being
> overzealous is not.
Being ov
>
> It's a good thing I pay attention to this issue, too, Mr. Just Go Ahead
> And Merge It.
dude, name calling is way out of line here.
Why is it a good thing you are blocking this driver? Do you have ANY
indication AT ALL that there is anything fishy about it?
(and don't say "they didn't follo
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:54:51AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:06:36PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > acx1xx-wireless-driver.patch
> > > fix-tiacx-on-alpha.patch
> > > tiacx-fix-attribute-packed-war
Ar Llu, 2006-06-05 am 12:35 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven:
> And to be fair the pwc camera driver was just a guy with a personality
> problem rather than any real legal standing.
I must disagree there having reviewed the code in question and been
directly involved in the fallout.
Alan
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On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 11:26 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Llu, 2006-06-05 am 10:45 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven:
> > It's just that a cleanroom approach is a sure way to prove
> > you didn't copy. That's all.
>
> Which is an extremely important detail especially if you have been
> reverse e
Ar Llu, 2006-06-05 am 10:45 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven:
> It's just that a cleanroom approach is a sure way to prove
> you didn't copy. That's all.
Which is an extremely important detail especially if you have been
reverse engineering another driver for the same or similar OS where it
i
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:06:36PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > acx1xx-wireless-driver.patch
> > fix-tiacx-on-alpha.patch
> > tiacx-fix-attribute-packed-warnings.patch
> > tiacx-pci-build-fix.patch
> > tiacx-ia64-fix.patch
> >
> >
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 10:33 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 06:15:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:06:36 -0400
> > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > It is about time we did something with this large and presumably
> > > > usefu
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 06:15:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:06:36 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > It is about time we did something with this large and presumably useful
> > > wireless driver.
> >
> > I've never had technical objections to m
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:06:36 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > acx1xx-wireless-driver.patch
> > fix-tiacx-on-alpha.patch
> > tiacx-fix-attribute-packed-warnings.patch
> > tiacx-pci-build-fix.patch
> > tiacx-ia64-fix.pat
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> acx1xx-wireless-driver.patch
> fix-tiacx-on-alpha.patch
> tiacx-fix-attribute-packed-warnings.patch
> tiacx-pci-build-fix.patch
> tiacx-ia64-fix.patch
>
> It is about time we did something with this large and presumably useful
>
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