linux-kernel - Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

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Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:30:18 -0800
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, bkuhn@....org
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com>,
	Charles Marker <Charles.Marker@...eros.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@...eros.com>,
	Kevin Hayes <kevin@...eros.com>,
	Zhifeng Cai <zhifeng.cai@...eros.com>,
	Don Breslin <Don.Breslin@...eros.com>,
	Doug Dahlby <Doug.Dahlby@...eros.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> 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
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