From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Balbi Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] u_char.c and mtp.c patches Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:07:27 +0300 Message-ID: <20100419200727.GC27643@nokia.com> References: <1268123742-22968-1-git-send-email-felipe.balbi@nokia.com> <20100419162611.GA15131@nokia.com> Reply-To: felipe.balbi@nokia.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ext Linus Walleij Cc: "Balbi Felipe (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" , Linux USB Mailing List , "Krogerus Heikki (EXT-Teleca/Helsinki)" , "Quadros Roger (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" , "Kaliuta Yauheni (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" , "Mandy Arnaud.2 (EXT-Teleca/Helsinki)" , Greg KH , David Brownell , linux-embedded , Tim Bird , "libmtp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net" On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:23:46PM +0200, ext Linus Walleij wrote: >...so I read you like it's not going to be supported with the proposed >solution? > >I think that if you want you gadget to work with older Windowses, >you simply have to support this. if you're willing to pay the Royalty fees, let me know :-p seriously, we just can't support it. AFAICT, M$ has patents over the OS Descriptor thingy (I could wrong though) and we don't want to give linux foundation a law suit, do we ? :-) There's no simple way to support old windows OSes. We could provide another .inf file on the kernel source for that at least. -- balbi