From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vb Subject: Re: Adding a new platform Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:15:01 -0700 Message-ID: References: <48AB0A7A.8040209@cisco.com> <7d1d9c250808192019g6ec73ec7x53563b8ad2130df@mail.gmail.com> <7d1d9c250808192129j3fb7ef28p8f404c6affd82078@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=TF1uNUpZ6gUgb3iK1/Jjbut010GeKsVS7UUzLXZvg5E=; b=fOHYizvAWLGN40uvA1X0665pTuWnCH0FfwYzJ5TQbivzsZ8yKIdyTUGWJmu4pft67P Mt2XTFfuFu1hvGqlFRmkEBaFGaJyVRNfyc0UEB1zoonT/nonZuYSUDhUwCtho73DPp5G u7Tc554kaZvAFUMFuWcfMsHryM3gUl4JZJoIU= In-Reply-To: <7d1d9c250808192129j3fb7ef28p8f404c6affd82078@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Linux Embedded Maillist , corbet@lwn.net On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, vb wrote: >> >> so, say a developer submits a proprietary driver and it gets accepted. > > Doesn't happen. By design. If the driver is proprietary then it is presumably > not meant for open distribution, and hence not compatible with GPL and > widespread distribution into 100,000 public git repositories. So it won't > get submitted and it won't get accepted. > I guess 'proprietary' is not the right term then, how do you call a driver which is not a secret and not a problem to release, but controls some hardware present in only in certain devices of a certain company. Would such a driver be accepted? Wouldn't such a driver get stale after a few kernel releases?