From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Summarizing the PWC driver questions/answers
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:31:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040827203106.GA3546@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0408271442040.650-100000@ida.rowland.org>
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 02:51:01PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Q: Why did you remove the hook from the pwc driver?
> > A: It was there for the explicit purpose to support a binary only
> > module. That goes against the kernel's documented procedures, so I
> > had to take it out.
>
> Can you say exactly where these procedures/policies are spelled out?
See Linus's response on this thread for a statement of such a policy.
As to where they are written down, I don't know, sorry.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-27 16:26 Summarizing the PWC driver questions/answers Greg KH
2004-08-27 16:58 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-27 18:26 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 19:05 ` Ian Romanick
2004-08-27 20:36 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 16:58 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-27 17:54 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-27 18:51 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2004-08-27 20:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-08-30 17:31 ` Brian Litzinger
2004-08-30 18:24 ` Jeff Kinz
2004-08-30 19:28 ` viro
2004-08-30 20:11 ` Kenneth Lavrsen
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