From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:59:01 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" Message-ID: <20080704135901.51b6b6e2@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20080704.135150.250580915.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704.133721.98729739.davem@davemloft.net> <20080704134208.6c712031@infradead.org> <20080704.135150.250580915.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Miller Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, jeff@garzik.org, andi@firstfloor.org, tytso@mit.edu, hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:51:50 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Arjan van de Ven > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:42:08 -0700 > > > On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:37:21 -0700 (PDT) > > David Miller wrote: > > > > > It seems your employer is telling you to work on this in order to > > > sort out some perceived legal issue. And that's the only reason > > > you're investing any effort into this. > > > > I assume you meant Davids previous employer (Red Hat) with this, not > > his current one (Intel). I seriously doubt (and know for sure we > > never asked/told David anything around this) that Intel cares about > > what happens in tg3. > > Yet that is exactly the impression that I have gotten over > all of the communication I've received. > then I'd like to set that impression straight (and burry the conspiracy theories)... I've never asked David to do this for any kind of legal theory or otherwise. Any of it, tg3 or otherwise. And while I can't speak for Intel on legal aspects (if there are any here), I can speak as Davids manager that this entire project hasn't originated from anything we (Intel) asked him to do. -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org