From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751192AbWLMVr2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:47:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751202AbWLMVr1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:47:27 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:46211 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192AbWLMVr0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:47:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:47:21 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Martin Bligh Cc: Greg KH , "Michael K. Edwards" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 Message-Id: <20061213134721.d8ff8c11.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <45807182.1060408@mbligh.org> References: <20061213195226.GA6736@kroah.com> <20061213210219.GA9410@suse.de> <45807182.1060408@mbligh.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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, 13 Dec 2006 13:32:50 -0800 Martin Bligh wrote: > So let's come out and ban binary modules, rather than pussyfooting > around, if that's what we actually want to do. Give people 12 months warning (time to work out what they're going to do, talk with the legal dept, etc) then make the kernel load only GPL-tagged modules. I think I'd favour that. It would aid those people who are trying to obtain device specs, and who are persuading organisations to GPL their drivers. (Whereas the patch which is proposed in this thread hinders those people)