linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] advansys: use request

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Message-ID: <20081220153258.GU19967@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:32:58 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@...radead.org>
Cc:	James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	willy@...ux.intel.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] advansys: use request_firmware

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:55:27PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> diff --git a/firmware/WHENCE b/firmware/WHENCE
> index 299301f..27105bc 100644
> --- a/firmware/WHENCE
> +++ b/firmware/WHENCE
> @@ -363,3 +363,16 @@ Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked:
>    Copyright (C) 2001 Qlogic Corporation (www.qlogic.com)
>  
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +Driver: SCSI_ADVANSYS - AdvanSys SCSI
> +
> +File: advansys/mcode.bin
> +File: advansys/3550.bin
> +File: advansys/38C0800.bin
> +File: advansys/38C1600.bin
> +
> +Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible.
> +
> +Found in hex form in kernel source.

I thought we discussed this before.  If you take it from an earlier
version of the driver, you can get it under a disjunction of BSD and
GPL, and take the BSD option.

As far as I know, no source code has been published.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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