Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/17] net/ionic: add hardware structures definitions

[Alfredo Cardigliano <cardigliano@ntop.org>]

> On 2 Dec 2019, at 17:33, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:22:20 +0200
> Alfredo Cardigliano <cardigliano@ntop.org> wrote:
> 
>> Add hardware structures and message commands definitions for
>> Pensando network adapters.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alfredo Cardigliano <cardigliano@ntop.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ionic/ionic_if.h | 2491 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 2491 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ionic/ionic_if.h
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_if.h b/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_if.h
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000..5f31ec034
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_if.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,2491 @@
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB OR BSD-2-Clause */
> 
> This is not on the approved license list see license/README
> and as Ferruh said would require special exception from DPDK governing board.

I am going to change the License to BSD-3 for all files, however we would
like to keep the current license for this specific header file (ionic_if.h) which
is shared with the Linux kernel driver.
Do you think this is acceptable?

Thanks,
Alfredo