Re: [PATCH] hwmon/hdaps: Fix bug 7154 inversion of separate axis

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Sun Feb 15 2009 - 10:28:39 EST


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:23:59PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:41:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > You're arguing that sysfs interfaces are copyrightable?
>
> I'm not arguing anything. I'll let you, Shame Multithing and anyone
> else with too much spare time argue whatever you want. Me, I have many
> more useful things to do.

Adopting an interface that's already in use in the wild is a perfectly
reasonable thing to do. The argument is over whether the tp_smapi driver
itself has IP issues, not over whether its sysfs interface does.

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