From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268279AbUHYTDd (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:03:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268286AbUHYTDd (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:03:33 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41391 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268279AbUHYTDc (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:03:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:03:01 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Oliver Neukum Cc: joshk@triplehelix.org, rddunlap@osdl.org, lcaron@apartia.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27 Message-Id: <20040825120301.0f396eb0.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200408251034.59717.oliver@neukum.org> References: <412B5B35.7020701@apartia.fr> <20040824233648.53eb7c30.davem@redhat.com> <412C442D.3090107@triplehelix.org> <200408251034.59717.oliver@neukum.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:34:59 +0200 Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2004 09:47 schrieb Joshua Kwan: > > I'm not clear on the details but what they seem to have deduced is that > > as long as the firmware 'variable' is not shipped into Debian as part of > > the compiled tg3.o, it's barely Free. See > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=243044 > > > > for details of the loophole. To me, it makes no difference... > > And it really strains the meaning of "bugreport" And I have to assume that you guys did the same thing to the qlogic scsi drivers too? That should wipe out about half of the ia64 boxes out there, ROFL!