On Tue, Apr 02 2019, George Hilliard wrote: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2019, 5:32 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> The license text in this driver is "interesting" and not really obvious >> that it is supposed to be able to be distributed in the kernel source >> tree. Yes, the MODULE_LICENSE() text says GPL, so it's probably ok, but >> to be safe, I am deleting this driver. I will be glad to add it back if >> the license is properly sorted out, but for now, this isn't worth the >> potential risk, I should have never taken it in the first place. >> > > So, for what it's worth, this driver has an obvious heritage of having been > modified from the main Mediatek MMC driver. Now, of course it's *possible* > to distribute GPL-incompatible changes to a GPL program, but the only > *compliant* way to distribute these changes would have been the GPL. > > So there's a very good chance that it's intended to be GPL. (Which is > good, because I need this driver!) I suppose we need to reach out to the > original contributor. People keep telling me that drivers/mmc/host/mtk-sd.c should be able to handle the same hardware as this driver, with a little bit of work. Unfortunately they haven't told me what the little bit of work involves. Have you explored that possibility at all? I might try to have a look if I can make time. NeilBrown
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