From: Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <gl@dsa-ac.de>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [somewhat OT] binary modules agaaaain
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:28:37 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5137757.1082762917@[192.168.1.249]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0404201705510.1869-100000@pcgl.dsa-ac.de>
And it must, if only because there are laws that require some device
drivers to be binary only.
I kid you not, take a look at the FCC software radio rules. Some wireless
cards fall into their definition.
Wierd world, but there we go...
Andrew
--On Tuesday, 20 April 2004 5:08 p.m. +0200 Guennadi Liakhovetski
<gl@dsa-ac.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
>> > A binary module is "considered good" if
>>
>> This is a false assumption IMO no binary only modules can be "good".
>
> I agree! That was just an idea to make Linux life easier __if__ it
> __must__ live with binary modules.
>
> Thanks
> Guennadi
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Andrew McGregor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-23 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-19 15:53 Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-04-20 8:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-04-20 10:23 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-04-20 14:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-04-20 15:08 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-04-21 2:24 ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-22 14:13 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-04-23 11:28 ` Andrew McGregor [this message]
2004-04-23 12:29 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-24 2:29 ` Andrew McGregor
2004-04-22 16:19 ` Charles Shannon Hendrix
2004-04-22 18:55 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
[not found] <1MJlZ-4mT-47@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-24 10:03 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-04-24 20:00 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
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