Re: [PATCH] Add Marvell UMI driver

[li jianyun]

Hi Grep KH
      thanks for your remind,I am a beginnerïand don't know how to
send patch to kernel.
I will update the Signed-off-by. Do I need update the subject to
"[PATCH][RESEND] Add Marvell UMI driver" when I resend this patch?
     thanks for your patient.


2011/4/20 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:02:19PM +0800, Li Jianyun wrote:
>>
>>       The Marvell Universal Message Interface (UMI) defines a messaging
>> interface between host and Marvell products. It considers situations of
>> limited system resource and optimized system performance.
>>       UMI driver translates host request to message and sends message to
>> FW via UMI, FW receives message and processes it, then sends response to
>> UMI driver.
>>       FW generates an interrupt when it needs to send information or
>> responseto UMI driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jianyun Li <jianyunff@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Why not sign off using your marvell.com email address?
>
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/mvumi.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,2245 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Marvell UMI driver
>> + *
>> + * Copyright 2011 Marvell. <jyli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> + *
>> + * This file is licensed under GPLv2.
>> + *
>> + * 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; version 2 of the
>> + * License.
>> + *
>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
>> + * General Public License for more details.
>> + *
>> + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> + * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>> + * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
>> + * USA
>
> Unless you are willing to track the office location of the FSF for the
> next 40 years, and send patches updating it here, just drop this
> paragraph, it's pointless, as the person _did_ get a copy with the
> kernel.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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