Re: [PATCH RESEND v7 00/11] PCI: dwc: Relatively simple fixes and cleanups

[Serge Semin]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 10:41:27AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 10:19:54PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > It turns out the recent DW PCIe-related patchset was merged in with
> > several relatively trivial issues left unsettled (noted by Bjorn and
> > Manivannan). All of these lefovers have been fixed in this patchset.
> > Namely the series starts with two bug-fixes. The first one concerns the
> > improper link-mode initialization in case if the CDM-check is enabled. The
> > second unfortunate mistake I made in the IP-core version type helper. In
> > particular instead of testing the IP-core version type the macro function
> > referred to the just IP-core version which obviously wasn't what I
> > intended.
> > ...
> 

> I am unable to do anything with this series.
> 
> Google's legal team is reviewing this matter under applicable laws and
> regulations.

I don't get it, how come Google gets to decide anything about what to
do with this patchset? Even the driver copyright doesn't belong to
Google Inc, not to mentioned the GPL v2 license under which the driver
is released. Could you clarify since when Google (but not the driver
and subsystem maintainers) has been reviewing the patches submitted to
the kernel? And how come it is able to block even the subsystem
maintainers work?

-Serge(y)

> 
> Bjorn