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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qcserial comes up in unhelpful custom mode?
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 08:12:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090403151237.GA25994@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090403150301.GA25846@suse.de>

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 08:03:01AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > I thought we'd decided that drivers weren't going to be merged in that
> > case (poulsbow, the original 3945 driver)
> 
> We have lots of drivers that rely on firmware that is not in the kernel
> to work properly, I see this as just the same thing.
> 
> And again, I have been assured that the code is going to be distributed
> soon, and that others are already using the driver successfully.

Hm, look at the linux-usb list, someone has posted a shell script that
gets the hardware to work properly already.

So you should be good to go now.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-03 15:13 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
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 [this message]
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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