RE: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

[Dugger, Donald D]

To quote from the driver, `drivers/serial/8250_pci.c':

/*
 *  linux/drivers/char/8250_pci.c
 *
 *  Probe module for 8250/16550-type PCI serial ports.
 *
 *  Based on drivers/char/serial.c, by Linus Torvalds, Theodore Ts'o.
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 2001 Russell King, All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * 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; either version 2 of the License.
 */

Looks like version 2 to me.

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>-----Original Message-----
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>On Behalf Of Robert Millan
>Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:07 AM
>To: The development of GRUB 2
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support
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>On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:28:57AM -0800, Dugger, Donald D wrote:
>> The Linux driver has over 600
>> lines of customized code for over 100 different devices to do this 
>> task.  Trying to duplicate that code from scratch is rather 
>> unfeasible.
>
>Before we continue, did you check if that code in particular 
>is GPLv2 only or "or later"?  I think most drivers in Linux 
>are in fact "or later".
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