From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757750AbYBARkk (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:40:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751684AbYBARk1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:40:27 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:40934 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751650AbYBARkZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:40:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:29:52 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Gilles Espinasse Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only Message-ID: <20080201172952.GA32679@suse.de> References: <1201877107.47a3307340b38@imp.free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1201877107.47a3307340b38@imp.free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 03:45:07PM +0100, Gilles Espinasse wrote: > >FYI, this is a patch that will be sent out in the next round to Linus > >for inclusion in 2.6.25. > > > >If anyone has any objections about it, please let me know. > > > .. > > There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this > > patch should cause no problems. > > There is the unicorn usb adsl modem driver (STM unicorn chip). > http://www.bewan.com/bewan/drivers/A1012-A1006-A904-A888-A983-0.9.3.tgz > There is some sources and a binary blob to be linked. > > The only things I know from the binary blob is that sources should be 150 000 > lines of C++. Wow, larger than all the in-kernel USB drivers, and the USB core combined. That's an impressive display of horrible code :) > Driver compile with gcc-3 but not with gcc-4 (because of the binary blob). So they aren't even being used by modern distros, so there's not much to worry about here... thanks for the info. greg k-h