Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/acpi/: possible cleanups

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:04:20PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> I've already asked Bob Moore to migrate to the use of static in the
> interpreter.  There are some somewhat urgent functional issues he needs
> to focus on first, but static is on the list.  If we allow him to do it
> upstream (w/o looking at your patch), then we can avoid a fork in the
> core interpreter code.
> 
> At the same time, the non "R. Byron Moore" files, such as those in
> drivers/acpi, but not in the lower sub-directories, are straight GPL and
> I'll be happy to accept patches to those files immediately.  Note that
> there are 4 straight GPL files in include/acpi as well -- so like the
> drivers/acpi/* files, we can modify them any time when cleanups are
> appropriate in the Linux release cycle.

The files are licensed under a BSD license so all patches against it
are aswell unless explicitly marked.

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