linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 00/21] Add HiSilicon RoCE driver

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Message-ID: <5742578E.5070601@huawei.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 May 2016 09:06:22 +0800
From:	"Wei Hu (Xavier)" <xavier.huwei@...wei.com>
To:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, Lijun Ou <oulijun@...wei.com>,
	<sean.hefty@...el.com>, <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	<davem@...emloft.net>, <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	<jiri@...lanox.com>, <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
CC:	<linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <gongyangming@...wei.com>,
	<xiaokun@...wei.com>, <tangchaofei@...wei.com>,
	<haifeng.wei@...wei.com>, <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
	<yankejian@...wei.com>, <charles.chenxin@...wei.com>,
	<linuxarm@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 00/21] Add HiSilicon RoCE driver

Hi, Doug Ledford

We will modify the license description of the beginning of the code file 
in  patch v8.
Thanks

Regards
Wei Hu

On 2016/5/14 5:09, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On 05/09/2016 11:04 PM, Lijun Ou wrote:
>> The HiSilicon Network Substem is a long term evolution IP which is
>> supposed to be used in HiSilicon ICT SoCs. HNS (HiSilicon Network
>> Sybsystem) also has a hardware support of performing RDMA with
>> RoCEE.
>> The driver for HiSilicon RoCEE(RoCE Engine) is a platform driver and
>> will support mulitple versions of SOCs in future. This version of driver
>> is meant to support Hip06 SoC(which confirms to RoCEEv1 hardware
>> specifications).
>>
>> Changes v6 -> v7:
>> 1. modify some type of parameter, use bool replace the original type.
>> 2. add the Signed-off-by signatures in the first patch.
>> 3. delete the improper print sentence in hns_roce_create_eq.
> One thing you should be aware of (but which you may not care about,
> which is fine) is that if you want your driver to be available as part
> of the OpenFabric Alliances OFED distribution, the license on the files
> would need to be "GPL or BSD" (see the remainder of the RDMA stack for
> examples).  If you don't want that license on your files, I'm fine with
> that, and I won't hold up your submission based on the license.  If,
> however, you *do* want your code to be shipable as part of OFED, it is
> much easier to update the license on the files before you submit them
> and third parties modify them.  If you want to change the license later,
> you have to get every person that has made any substantive change to the
> file to agree to the license change.
>
>