From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pix Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:09:05 +0000 Subject: Re: fxload patch to set bRequest byte Message-Id: <20051022070904.GA6544@kachi2> List-Id: References: <20051019014259.GD13089@kachi2> In-Reply-To: <20051019014259.GD13089@kachi2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:33:09PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:42:59AM +0200, pix wrote: > > > > i needed this to get the emi26 driver out of the kernel (since it's > > being removed in some distributions already for being non-free). > > That's just Debian being anal for no good reason. Don't give in to > them, they are just being foolish :) well i think they are just preparing for the inevitable. you can't have a kernel claiming to be gpl if it contains code covered by a license that is not, by any stretch of the imagination, gpl-compatible. so i'm all for taking it out. but i'm also all for having it still work somehow and in the emi case it's so trivial i had to do it. also like i said, this non-kernel method works with my current setup where the in-kernel method doesn't. i think it's something about the way tapio was combining sequential bits of the firmware into big writes to speed things up (producing the not so uncommon -110 error). fxload also does this, but i guess in a different, more friendly way, that gets through without errors. i'll document the full method and put up the necessary files on my website soonish, if anyone is interested. pix. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel