From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:17:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204323473.2316.59.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C87460.2030705@davidnewall.com>
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 07:38 +1030, David Newall wrote:
> I think there's a political agenda, and that's something that nobody can
> solve. The simplest solution is to change the name it uses on a regular
> basis, and that something relatively unimportant. People will still
> call it ndiswrapper, but it will identify itself to the kernel as
> wrappythingy, and then ndisthingy, and then wrapndis. Heck, make it
> purely random. Solve the problem for all time.
If there is a political agenda, then LKML is the worst place to discuss
the details.
> It's a stupid problem promulgated by stupid people, and I use the word
> "stupid" in it's most pejorative sense.
It would be more useful if you counter specific arguments rather than
employ ad hominem attacks.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 22:11 [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols Pavel Roskin
2008-02-28 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 6:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 16:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 16:54 ` Chris Friesen
2008-02-29 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 17:59 ` Chris Friesen
2008-03-06 14:56 ` David Woodhouse
2008-02-29 16:59 ` Zan Lynx
2008-02-29 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 17:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 19:39 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 20:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 21:13 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 20:17 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-29 20:40 ` David Newall
2008-02-29 20:59 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 21:08 ` David Newall
2008-02-29 22:17 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-03-01 8:15 ` David Newall
2008-02-29 20:44 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 21:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 22:31 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-03 10:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 5:37 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-04 12:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-04 17:38 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 17:45 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-04 21:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 23:23 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-04 20:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 23:25 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-05 13:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 17:18 ` Jon Masters
2008-02-29 21:55 ` Adrian Bunk
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