Re: [patch] New driver for Artop [Acard] controllers.

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Sun, 26 May 2002 13:05:47 +0200


On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:07:36PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> Where do you get off delete copyrights?
> GPL permits changing it does not give you the right to steal, lie, cheat,
> defraud, other peoples work. However I should not expect anything of
> honor from a person of your high morals. I know you want to rewrite the
> past to make it so I and other never existed, but you are pathetic.

I don't delete copyrights, where applicable. However, in this case, none
of the original code stayed, not a single line - I first wrote a spec
based on the old driver and then wrote a new driver from scratch based
on that spec. So, you really don't have a copyright on the new Artop
driver, sorry.

> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:29:39PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I have a very quick look over patch/driver... looks quite ok...
> > >
> > > But it doesn't support multiple controllers. We should add 'unsigned
> > > long private' to 'ata_channel struct' and store index in the chipset
> > > table there.
> > > You can remove duplicate entries from module data table.
> > >
> > > BTW: please don't touch pdc202xx.c I am playing with it...
> >
> > Here is a new patch. Martin: This one should be OK for inclusion now.
> > Bartlomiej: Please check it anyway.
> >
> > --
> > Vojtech Pavlik
> > SuSE Labs
> >
>
> Andre Hedrick
> LAD Storage Consulting Group

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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