RE: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

[Dugger, Donald D]

Hmm, I just realized that the word `either' is interesting, it could
mean that the intent was to use either v2 or v3 and the v3 part got
dropped by mistake.  I'll ask for a clarification on the LKML to see
for sure.

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>-----Original Message-----
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>On Behalf Of Dugger, Donald D
>Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:30 AM
>To: The development of GRUB 2
>Subject: RE: [PATCH] PCI serial card support
>
>To quote from the driver, `drivers/serial/8250_pci.c':
>
>/*
> *  linux/drivers/char/8250_pci.c
> *
> *  Probe module for 8250/16550-type PCI serial ports.
> *
> *  Based on drivers/char/serial.c, by Linus Torvalds, Theodore Ts'o.
> *
> *  Copyright (C) 2001 Russell King, All Rights Reserved.
> *
> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License.
> */
>
>Looks like version 2 to me.
>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: address@hidden
>>[mailto:address@hidden
>>On Behalf Of Robert Millan
>>Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:07 AM
>>To: The development of GRUB 2
>>Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support
>>
>>On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:28:57AM -0800, Dugger, Donald D wrote:
>>> The Linux driver has over 600
>>> lines of customized code for over 100 different devices to do this 
>>> task.  Trying to duplicate that code from scratch is rather 
>>> unfeasible.
>>
>>Before we continue, did you check if that code in particular is GPLv2 
>>only or "or later"?  I think most drivers in Linux are in fact "or 
>>later".
>>
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