[Nouveau] [RFC] nouveau: Add basic i2c sensor chip support

[Stephane Marchesin]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 21:02, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:59:37PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 18:43 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> > This one works better, including some amount of support for the internal
>> > GPU sensor. It seems to give reasonable results on all the cards I have
>> > here.
>>
>> So, I obviously have concerns/objections to allowing GPL code into drm.
>> Especially, since this code doesn't do anything interesting or
>> innovative that I can see.  It just reads registers via i2c... I mean
>> how else would you do it?
>
> It contains code cut and paste from nvclock (a GPLed codebase) and uses
> functions that are specific to the Linux kernel. I don't have the legal
> expertise to be able to claim it's not a derived work.
>

An alternative would be to ask Roderick if he's ok to relicense the
bits from nvclock. Doesn't look like a lot from what I can see.

Stephane