From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qcserial comes up in unhelpful custom mode?
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:57:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090403135719.GD19774@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090403025654.GA20146@suse.de>
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:56:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> But, I have heard reports of people dual-booting with other operating
> systems and then successfully using the device under Linux with the
> qcserial driver, so that is one solution for some users.
So it's a driver that's useless without a closed source firmware loader,
either in the form of a Linux userspace application that can't be
distributed or in the form of Windows? I thought we'd decided that
drivers weren't going to be merged in that case (poulsbow, the original
3945 driver)
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-03 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-01 20:37 qcserial comes up in unhelpful custom mode? Matthew Garrett
2009-04-03 2:56 ` Greg KH
2009-04-03 13:57 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-04-03 15:03 ` Greg KH
2009-04-03 15:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-03 15:57 ` Greg KH
2009-04-03 16:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-07 22:41 ` Greg KH
2009-04-03 15:12 ` Greg KH
2009-04-03 15:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-03 16:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-04 15:27 ` qcserial/gobi firmware loader Matthew Garrett
2009-04-04 16:24 ` [PATCH] qcserial: Add extra device IDs Matthew Garrett
2009-04-04 17:51 ` qcserial/gobi firmware loader Kay Sievers
2009-04-04 17:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-04 18:14 ` Alexander Shumakovitch
2009-04-04 18:37 ` Matthew Garrett
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