From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: adam@yggdrasil.com, steve@steve-parker.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PWC issue
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:11:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040828081100.6b6c9f8c.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040828051919.GC10151@kroah.com>
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:19:19 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
| On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 10:50:05AM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
| >
| > By the way, I have a long running dispute with Greg K-H
| > about his refusal so far to remove replace the GPL incompatible
| > firmware in certain USB serial drivers with such a user level
| > loading mechanism. Go figure.
|
| Send me a patch to do so, and I will apply it (must include userspace
| files so that hotplug can load them properly.)
|
| The last time we went around about this I rejected it as we were in a
| stable kernel series. As that is now not true, I'm open to the patch.
Which part is now not true?
| It's not an idealogical issue for me, given Linus's statements about
| firmware in the kernel, but I do agree that it is a better thing as we
| have used up less kernel memory.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-28 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-28 17:50 Adam J. Richter
2004-08-28 5:19 ` Greg KH
2004-08-28 15:11 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-08-28 15:33 ` Kasper Sandberg
2004-08-28 16:12 ` Greg KH
2004-08-28 17:26 ` Randy.Dunlap
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-29 4:25 Adam J. Richter
2004-08-29 2:06 Adam J. Richter
2004-08-29 5:01 ` Greg KH
2004-08-29 0:20 Adam J. Richter
2004-08-28 0:57 Steve Parker
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