From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:31:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:31:06 -0400 Received: from smtp3.cern.ch ([137.138.131.164]:54246 "EHLO smtp3.cern.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:30:57 -0400 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Qlogic/FC firmware In-Reply-To: <20010821.055856.08326920.davem@redhat.com> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 21 Aug 2001 15:31:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: "David S. Miller"'s message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2001 05:58:56 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "David" == David S Miller writes: David> Who removed it from the 2.4.x driver recently, and why? David> I've been playing around, accidently corrupting my firmware a David> few times, and had to grab the firmware back from older trees David> to make my qlogic,FC card usable again. David> Removing the firmware makes no sense, if the firmware was David> incorrect for some reason, simply correct it. Alan did after I pointed out to him that it was incompatible with the GPL (BSD license with advertisement clause). Really hard to fix unless you get QLogic to change the license for you. Jes