linux-kernel - Re: Feedback please: [PATCH] leds: New PCEngines Alix LED driver using gpio interface

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Message-ID: <20110317112218.563a5f21@queued.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:22:18 -0700
From:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
To:	Ed W <lists@...dgooses.com>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>, rpurdie@...ys.net,
	linux-geode@...ts.infradead.org, const@...as.ru,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feedback please: [PATCH] leds: New PCEngines Alix LED driver
 using gpio interface

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:59:06 +0000
Ed W <lists@...dgooses.com> wrote:

> On 17/03/2011 17:52, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > OLPC stuff lives in arch/x86/platform/olpc; if there was more
> > alix-specific stuff, I'd suggest moving it into something similar.
> > However, I didn't find any.  Maybe an arch/x86/platform/geode as a
> > place to collect platform drivers for the various geode-based
> > machines out there (alix, soekris, etc)?  Though honestly, I'm not
> > that interested in doing the work to migrate stuff over to there.
> 
> 
> As this is my first stab at this, I think you are agreeing that the
> current change is ok as a first step at least?  (I can have a go at a
> larger code re-org later...)

Yes.


> 
> Can I get your final opinion on what should be in the code Copyright
> statement before I resubmit with the module_init change? To recap I
> don't want to alienate anyone, but the code is now based on a)
> leds-5501 and b) a patch from someone not currently credited in the
> file copyright statement?  I have stated this origin in the commit
> log and noted the derivation in the code itself. What to do..?


alix_present came from commit
ec9a943ce9f6d6a8ea09587b49d29a020c418c76 , which was from Constantin.
As such, it's probably not a good idea to remove the copyright notice.
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