From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:36:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:36:21 -0500 Received: from Mail1.KONTENT.De ([81.88.34.36]:23470 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:36:19 -0500 From: Oliver Neukum Reply-To: oliver@neukum.name To: Nick Craig-Wood , Greg KH Subject: Re: Preferred way to load non-free firmware Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:47:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030326041146.GD20858@kroah.com> <20030326104856.GA31375@axis.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030326104856.GA31375@axis.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303261347.27137.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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