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Re: MOAB - update board support
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- Cc: eCos patches <ecos-patches at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:54:50 -0600
- Subject: Re: MOAB - update board support
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <1093353592.2961.20.camel@hermes> <20040824134712.GF7065@lunn.ch>
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 07:47, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Hi Gary
>
> > +//
> > +// ECC support - adapted from Linux:
> > +//
> > +// drivers/mtd/nand_ecc.c
> > +//
> > +// Copyright (C) 2000 Steven J. Hill (sjhill@realitydiluted.com)
> > +// Toshiba America Electronics Components, Inc.
> > +//
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) How generic is this? Should it actually go into io/flash or even
> service/crc?
It's very specific to the NAND ECC code, so no it doesn't belong
anywhere outside the FLASH tree. Maybe it could be moved to the
IO/FLASH area, but even that's debatable.
>
> 2) What is going on with the copright/license here?
It's just like many other files where we have cribbed pieces from the
Linux kernel - those pieces are attributed, with permission, to the
original author, but (IMO) no copyright is claimed or implied on this
derived work.
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates