From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267176AbUH1P0s (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:26:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267195AbUH1PYY (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:24:24 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:8864 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267176AbUH1PWV (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:22:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:11:00 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Greg KH Cc: adam@yggdrasil.com, steve@steve-parker.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PWC issue Message-Id: <20040828081100.6b6c9f8c.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040828051919.GC10151@kroah.com> References: <200408281750.i7SHo5C05936@freya.yggdrasil.com> <20040828051919.GC10151@kroah.com> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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