From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>, 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 13:47:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303261347.27137.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030326104856.GA31375@axis.demon.co.uk>
Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2003 11:48 schrieb Nick Craig-Wood:
> 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 :-(
That's their problem then. Or rather their users.
IMHO a maintainer's responsibility ends at kernel.org.
>From a technical point of view the firmware needs to be
in ram when you resume from sleep. If you don't care about
updating it, having it in the kernel image uses somewhat less
resources. So I'd say go for it.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-26 12:36 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
2003-03-26 12:47 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
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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