Re: PWC issue

Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-28T15:26:48Z

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?

| 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