[PATCH] Eagle and ADI 930 usb adsl modem driver
matthieu castet
castet.matthieu at free.fr
Sun Nov 6 13:44:10 EST 2005
Hi Greg,
matthieu castet wrote:
>>> + *
>>> + * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
>>> + * licenses. You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU
>>> + * General Public License (GPL) Version 2, available from the file
>>> + * COPYING in the main directory of this source tree, or the
>>> + * BSD license below:
>>> + *
>>> + * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>>> + * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
>>> + * are met:
>>
>>
>>
>> <snip> You don't need the whole GPL 2 copy here, just put the first
>> paragraph you have before this one in.
>>
> The paragraph you quote is the BSD licence, and point 1 is :
> Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
> * notice unmodified, this list of conditions, and the following
> * disclaimer
>
> So could I remove it ?
>
>
>>
>>> diff -rNu -x '*.ko*' -x '*.mod*' -x '*.o*'
>>> linux-2.6.14/drivers/usb/atm.old/ueagle-atm.h
>>> linux-2.6.14/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.h
>>> --- linux-2.6.14/drivers/usb/atm.old/ueagle-atm.h 1970-01-01
>>> 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
>>> +++ linux-2.6.14/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.h 2005-10-30
>>> 00:25:27.000000000 +0200
>>
>>
>>
>> Why do you need a header file for a single .c file?
>>
> I think it makes things cleaner. I even like the bsd style where there
> is an header for reg (hardware values) and an other for val (driver
> structures).
>
We patched our driver with the comments sent, but we still don't know
what to do with this 2 points :
- For the license stuff, all the dual bsd/gpl drivers I saw in the
kernel tree have the complete bsd header.
- For the header file I prefer a separate header file, but if Linux
policy is to merge header and source file, that's fine.
Regards,
Matthieu
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