Re: PWC issue

[Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 08:11 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:19:19 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
> 
> | On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 10:50:05AM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> | > 
> | > 	By the way, I have a long running dispute with Greg K-H
> | > about his refusal so far to remove replace the GPL incompatible
> | > firmware in certain USB serial drivers with such a user level
> | > loading mechanism.  Go figure.
> | 
> | Send me a patch to do so, and I will apply it (must include userspace
> | files so that hotplug can load them properly.)
> | 
> | The last time we went around about this I rejected it as we were in a
> | stable kernel series.  As that is now not true, I'm open to the patch.
> 
> Which part is now not true?
i believe what he means is, that the new development model permits doing
such stuff even now where 2.6 is a stable release
> 
> | It's not an idealogical issue for me, given Linus's statements about
> | firmware in the kernel, but I do agree that it is a better thing as we
> | have used up less kernel memory.
> 
> 
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> ~Randy
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