From: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Preferred way to load non-free firmware
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:48:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030326104856.GA31375@axis.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030326041146.GD20858@kroah.com>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:11:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 7) Encode the firmware into a header file, add it to the driver and
> > pretend that the copyright issue doesn't exist (like it's done in the
> > Keyspan USB driver).
>
> Hey, that's the way I like doing this stuff :)
If you do this the Debian kernel mainainers will mercilessly rip your
non-free driver firmware from the standard Debian kernel. At least
that is what happened with the Keyspan :-(
--
Nick Craig-Wood
ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-26 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-26 1:32 Pavel Roskin
2003-03-26 4:11 ` Greg KH
2003-03-26 10:48 ` Nick Craig-Wood [this message]
2003-03-26 12:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-26 13:52 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-03-26 16:19 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-26 10:51 ` Erik Hensema
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.50.0303252007420.6656-100000@marabou.research.a tt.com>
2003-03-27 1:38 ` Max Krasnyansky
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