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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

  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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