From: Adrian Cox <adrian@humboldt.co.uk>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Erik Harrison <erikharrison@gmail.com>,
davids@webmaster.com, eric@cisu.net,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:08:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087549710.1547.14.camel@newt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040616224949.GB7932@hh.idb.hist.no>
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 23:49, Helge Hafting wrote:
> 1. don't _link_ the proprietary file into the kernel, ship firmware & logo
> as separate files along with the distro. No problem.
USB serial drivers could be implemented in userspace given a 2.6 version
of Rogier Wolff's userspace serial patch:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.1/att-1075/01-patch-2.4.20.trueport-12-mrt
We currently have a lot of USB drivers in the kernel that could be
implemented in userspace. I'm thinking of drivers/usb/image, misc, and
serial particularly. If there was a userspace API to do for video
capture what SANE does for scanners, drivers/usb/media would be mostly
unneeded as well.
If vendors noticed that this was possible, we'd probably get more binary
userspace drivers for USB devices. I pass no judgement here as to
whether this would be good or bad.
- Adrian Cox
Humboldt Solutions Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-18 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-15 20:57 more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 0:38 ` Eric
2004-06-16 1:27 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-16 4:11 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-16 20:34 ` Erik Harrison
2004-06-16 20:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 21:21 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-16 22:45 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-16 23:45 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-17 14:09 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-17 18:35 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-17 19:22 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-17 7:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 8:43 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-17 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 10:09 ` Martin Diehl
2004-06-17 10:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-19 18:29 ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-17 14:04 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-16 22:49 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-18 9:08 ` Adrian Cox [this message]
2004-06-18 11:21 ` Kyle Moffett
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-16 23:47 Wichmann, Mats D
2004-06-17 1:18 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-18 6:29 Adam J. Richter
2004-06-17 15:44 ` Michael Poole
2004-06-17 17:09 ` Adam J. Richter
2004-06-17 19:14 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-17 20:51 ` Flavio Stanchina
2004-06-17 20:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-17 21:05 ` mdpoole
2004-06-17 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 21:45 ` Flavio Stanchina
2004-06-17 20:22 ` mdpoole
2004-06-17 18:05 ` Greg KH
2004-06-17 19:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 20:22 ` Greg KH
2004-06-17 20:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 20:52 ` Greg KH
2004-06-18 6:56 Adam J. Richter
2004-06-18 11:09 ` mdpoole
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