From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
mcgrof@gmail.com, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
jkkm@jkkm.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Firmware signing
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:38:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150728213805.GA8786@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150728185428.GD5307@cloud>
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:54:28AM -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> > So in that case, what's the advantage of separating the firmware from
> > the driver? If we can't update it without updating the driver, we could
> > just build it in and save a huge amount of hassle.
>
> Licensing, which is a large part of why we have request_firmware to
> begin with. Let's not make distribution kernel maintainers' lives more
> difficult than they already are.
Not true at all, please talk with some lawyers about this.
Or, to be clear, the lawyers I have discussed this with have no issues
at all with it. Yours might differ. Insert joke about 2 lawyers and 3
opinions and all that...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-28 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-28 13:36 [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Firmware signing David Howells
2015-07-28 14:23 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-28 16:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-07-28 15:10 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-28 15:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-28 15:31 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-28 16:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-28 16:10 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-28 16:15 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-28 16:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-28 16:44 ` David Howells
2015-07-28 17:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-28 19:19 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-28 19:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-28 19:43 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-28 22:03 ` James Bottomley
2015-08-11 20:24 ` David Howells
2015-08-11 21:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-11 22:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-12 18:22 ` David Howells
2015-08-12 18:45 ` David Woodhouse
2015-08-12 19:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-12 19:15 ` James Bottomley
2015-08-12 19:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-12 19:43 ` James Bottomley
2015-08-12 19:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-12 19:59 ` James Bottomley
2015-08-13 7:03 ` Jan Kara
2015-08-13 14:01 ` James Bottomley
2015-08-12 22:46 ` David Howells
2015-08-12 22:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-12 22:45 ` David Howells
2015-08-12 22:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-12 19:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-12 22:39 ` David Howells
2015-08-12 22:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-28 16:18 ` David Howells
2015-07-28 16:42 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-28 17:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-28 17:09 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-28 17:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-29 2:00 ` James Morris
2015-07-28 16:17 ` David Howells
2015-07-28 16:59 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-28 19:11 ` David Howells
2015-07-28 19:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-07-28 21:53 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-28 22:39 ` David Howells
2015-07-28 22:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-29 8:39 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-28 16:58 ` Josh Boyer
2015-07-28 15:12 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-28 18:47 ` Peter Jones
2015-07-28 19:14 ` David Howells
2015-07-28 19:52 ` Peter Jones
2015-07-28 18:36 ` josh
2015-07-28 18:44 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-28 18:54 ` josh
2015-07-28 19:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-07-28 21:38 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-07-28 23:59 ` josh
2015-07-29 0:17 ` Greg KH
2015-07-29 9:37 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-29 15:00 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-29 15:35 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-29 16:38 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-29 17:32 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-29 23:39 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-30 8:08 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-30 13:48 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-30 14:21 ` Heiko Stübner
2015-07-30 14:30 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-30 15:01 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-30 16:17 ` James Bottomley
2015-07-30 19:17 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-31 14:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-07-31 16:14 ` Tim Bird
2015-07-31 17:25 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-30 16:24 ` Tim Bird
2015-07-29 16:35 ` Josh Triplett
2015-07-29 8:29 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-29 11:57 ` Mark Brown
2015-07-29 12:02 ` David Woodhouse
2015-07-29 12:24 ` Mark Brown
2015-07-28 19:19 ` David Howells
2015-07-28 19:23 ` David Woodhouse
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