linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 1/3] Shared BCH ECC library

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Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:02:09 +0100
From:	Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@...rot.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 1/3] Shared BCH ECC library

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:08:36PM +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 12:15 +0100, Ivan Djelic wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 02:09:30PM +0000, Ivan Djelic wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > The first patch of this series contains a new generic BCH ECC library.
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > It has been a month since this patch was posted, and I did not receive any
> > > comment/review yet.
> > 
> > I can add it to my l2 tree and may be dwmw2 can merge it then. But could
> > you please re-send a version with better Kconfig help messages?
> 
> I had a quick look. The code looks pretty clean and well documented,
> though I did not dig into the details. There are a few comments
> "lifted from ...", I hope the code which is copied does not cause any
> license issues.

The code you are referring to is in the public domain (from the famous "Bit
Twiddling Hacks" page). I added this information in version v3 of my patch.
Thanks for the feedback!

Ivan
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