netdev - Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 00/21] Add HiSilicon RoCE driver

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Date:	Fri, 13 May 2016 17:09:39 -0400
From:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:	Lijun Ou <oulijun@...wei.com>, sean.hefty@...el.com,
	hal.rosenstock@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, jiri@...lanox.com,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Cc:	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gongyangming@...wei.com,
	xiaokun@...wei.com, tangchaofei@...wei.com, haifeng.wei@...wei.com,
	yisen.zhuang@...wei.com, yankejian@...wei.com,
	charles.chenxin@...wei.com, linuxarm@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 00/21] Add HiSilicon RoCE driver

On 05/09/2016 11:04 PM, Lijun Ou wrote:
> The HiSilicon Network Substem is a long term evolution IP which is
> supposed to be used in HiSilicon ICT SoCs. HNS (HiSilicon Network
> Sybsystem) also has a hardware support of performing RDMA with
> RoCEE.
> The driver for HiSilicon RoCEE(RoCE Engine) is a platform driver and
> will support mulitple versions of SOCs in future. This version of driver
> is meant to support Hip06 SoC(which confirms to RoCEEv1 hardware
> specifications).
> 
> Changes v6 -> v7:
> 1. modify some type of parameter, use bool replace the original type.
> 2. add the Signed-off-by signatures in the first patch.
> 3. delete the improper print sentence in hns_roce_create_eq.

One thing you should be aware of (but which you may not care about,
which is fine) is that if you want your driver to be available as part
of the OpenFabric Alliances OFED distribution, the license on the files
would need to be "GPL or BSD" (see the remainder of the RDMA stack for
examples).  If you don't want that license on your files, I'm fine with
that, and I won't hold up your submission based on the license.  If,
however, you *do* want your code to be shipable as part of OFED, it is
much easier to update the license on the files before you submit them
and third parties modify them.  If you want to change the license later,
you have to get every person that has made any substantive change to the
file to agree to the license change.

-- 
Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
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