netdev - Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue 02/10] ixgbe: add ipsec register access routines

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Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:24:45 +0000
From:   "Rustad, Mark D" <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>
To:     Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>
CC:     intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        "steffen.klassert@...unet.com" <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        "sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com" <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue 02/10] ixgbe: add ipsec register
 access routines


> On Dec 4, 2017, at 9:35 PM, Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> Add a few routines to make access to the ipsec registers just a little
> easier, and throw in the beginnings of an initialization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/Makefile      |   1 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h       |   6 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c | 157 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.h |  50 ++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c  |   1 +

<snip>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..14dd011
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
> +/*******************************************************************************
> + *
> + * Intel 10 Gigabit PCI Express Linux driver
> + * Copyright(c) 2017 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

I don't think that it really makes sense to assert "All rights reserved" in something that is GPL. It makes it seem like something is being asserted that is counter to the GPL.

<snip>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..017b13f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
> +/*******************************************************************************
> +
> +  Intel 10 Gigabit PCI Express Linux driver
> +  Copyright(c) 2017 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Likewise here.

-- 
Mark Rustad, Networking Division, Intel Corporation