linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][WAS:bcmai,axi] bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus driver

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Message-ID: <20110507224223.GA2537@broadcom.com>
Date:	Sat, 7 May 2011 15:42:25 -0700
From:	"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@...adcom.com>
To:	"Hauke Mehrtens" <hauke@...ke-m.de>
cc:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org" <b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
	"Michael Büsch" <mb@...sch.de>,
	"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	"George Kashperko" <george@...u.edu.ua>,
	"Arend Van Spriel" <arend@...adcom.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"Russell King" <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Andy Botting" <andy@...ybotting.com>,
	linuxdriverproject <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][WAS:bcmai,axi] bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus
 driver

On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> On 05/07/2011 06:51 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > 2011/5/7 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>:
> >> There is a Ethernet core used on embedded devices with this bus and
> >> George wrote a driver for the first version of this bus implementation,
> >> he send to the ML. Most user will use this with some wireless devices so
> >> I would add linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org. Why does ssb uses netdev ML?
> > 
> > Thanks, I didn't know about this ethernet driver. Have to check it!
> > Where was this published? Do you have a thread name?
> 
> I think he haven't send it to the mailing list, there is a link [0] in
> some Ticket [1] at OpenWrt. This driver was derived from source code
> Braodcom have published, but not under a GPL compatible license. It will
> be nice if Braodcom would allow us to publish a driver under the terms
> of the GPL for the Ethernet core based on their driver, without writing
> a full spec of the driver like it was done for b43.

...
> 
> [0] http://www.znau.edu.ua/temp/asus-rt-n16/openwrt-bcm4716-README.txt
> [1] https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6580#comment

All of of the patches listed in [0] appear to contain GPL-licensed code.  Can
you provide a pointer to the ethernet driver that you think is not under a
GPL-compatible license?

Thanks,
---
Henry Ptasinski
henryp@...adcom.com

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