From: Ben Collins <benmcollins13@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: afleming@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add support for handling queueing in hardware
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:14:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0FF79196-E252-4738-BFB5-C0B10F447B33@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130322.115924.1452021957855498515.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:59 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ben Collins <benmcollins13@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:53:54 -0400
>
>> Also, if there's a patch that makes my hardware work, but I can't
>> use it because (even though it's open source licensed) the author
>> doesn't want it in mainline, then that is effectively squatting.
>
> This is called respecting the wishes of the author of the code, I'm
> sorry if this is a foreign concept for you.
I'm sorry, I thought we were working on open source projects here. If the code isn't encumbered by patents, legal issues or technical problems, and is licensed compatible with the kernel, I just thought it was fair game.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-22 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-13 13:52 Andy Fleming
2013-03-22 14:11 ` David Miller
2013-03-22 14:31 ` Fleming Andy-AFLEMING
2013-03-22 14:33 ` David Miller
2013-03-22 14:43 ` Ben Collins
2013-03-22 15:17 ` David Miller
2013-03-22 15:39 ` Ben Collins
2013-03-22 15:41 ` David Miller
2013-03-22 15:53 ` Ben Collins
2013-03-22 15:59 ` David Miller
2013-03-22 16:14 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2013-03-22 16:16 ` David Miller
2013-03-22 16:23 ` Ben Collins
2013-03-22 22:08 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-23 19:10 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-04-01 14:13 ` Mark Brown
2013-03-23 19:02 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-03-24 19:06 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-03-22 14:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-22 14:50 ` Ben Collins
2013-03-22 15:01 ` Eric Dumazet
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