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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:24:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080623142400.GA25824@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0806231157590.10290@twin.jikos.cz>

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:00:02PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Greg KH wrote:
>
>> As part of the Linux Foundation Technical board, we confront the issue
>> of closed source Linux kernel modules all the time, and we wanted to do
>> something that could be seen as a general "public statement" about them
>> that is easy to understand and point to when people have questions.
>>
>> So, after working on this for a while, and asking some of the other
>> major contributors and maintainers of the kernel, what we have is below.
>>
>> There is also a site at:
>> 	http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Device_driver_statement
>
> Just a sidenote: It would probably be nice to have this linked from the 
> main LF page (News?), I don't seem to see it there ... ?

Yes, for some reason it hasn't shown up there, I don't know why.  I've
pinged them about this, but they might not be awake just yet :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-23 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-23  5:01 [ANNOUNCE] Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules Greg KH
2008-06-23 10:00 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-06-23 14:24   ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-06-23 11:29 ` Greg Louis
2008-06-23 13:09   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-06-24 11:33     ` Greg Louis
2008-06-24 15:02       ` David Newall
2008-06-23 18:12   ` Greg KH
2008-06-23 18:15 ` Måns Rullgård
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-23 13:02 Matthew
2008-06-23 13:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-06-25 22:45   ` jdow
2008-06-25 23:11     ` Willy Tarreau
2008-06-28  3:28       ` jdow
2008-06-23 18:11 ` Greg KH

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