Re: [linux-usb-devel] New, yet unsupported USB-Ethernet adaptor

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 14:33:58 EST





On Wed 03-05-06 20:14:28, Michael Helmling wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 May 2006 17:31, Andrey Panin wrote:
> > > What he
> > > should do would be to create a moschip.c that uses usbnet as a support
> > > module - just like asix.c does. In this file, he can have his sole
> > > Copyright attribution and not have to worry about following
> > > changes/updates to usbnet. Of course, if he communicated his
> > > development efforts with the community, he would have received all of
> > > this information long ago and we'd likely help shake out bugs in the
> > > code to make it a more robust driver.
> >
> > IMHO we should do it now. If there is no volunteers, I can try to do it,
> > but it will be my first USB driver, so don't expect results soon.
> >
>
> That would be great, I could give you feedback if / how it works.
> But I think someone versed in the GPL should contact moschip to clear things a
> bit.

No need to pull them into the loop, I'd say. What they done is wrong,
but we can correct it without their help.
Pavel
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Thanks, Sharp!
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