From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Cc: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/r8169: Remove the firmware of RTL8111D
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 23:04:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101206220440.GA3853@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291610284.8025.154.camel@localhost>
Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> :
[...]
> I have reports that the RTL8111D/8168D hardware can work without this
> firmware, possibly with limited functionality or compatibility. (I
> assume it is a patch for the original firmware loaded from ROM or
> flash.) So I feel obliged to give users the choice to use the driver
> without installing non-free firmware. If you want to make the warning
> on failure of request_firmware() more explicit then that's OK with me.
I'll make it more explicit regarding what it loads, yes.
> If you make the failure fatal I will probably revert that in Debian.
I have no technical argument against yours to make the failure fatal
yet: even Realtek's wording is rather soft. I will reconsider it if
things turn ugly.
Btw, it is not too hard to build a firmware-of-freedom binary : all
zero should be fine here.
--
Ueimor
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-01 5:22 Hayes Wang
2010-12-01 8:07 ` Francois Romieu
2010-12-01 9:54 ` hayeswang
2010-12-01 16:36 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2010-12-01 17:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-01 22:40 ` Francois Romieu
2010-12-06 4:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-06 22:04 ` Francois Romieu [this message]
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