From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] kbuild: Add a binary only .o file to a module
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:21:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4044A692.40106@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040301214617.GA7777@mars.ravnborg.org
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Any objections from having this in the kernel?
> [Please, please, this is only for 'legal' binary modules - so do not
> start the usual 'binary modules should be GPL discussion'].
>
> This is a small step towards better support for external modules.
I'll put in a vote for this. Unfortunately we have some hardware for
which the only drivers available use binary blobs.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-01 21:46 [RFC] kbuild: Add a binary only .o file to a module Sam Ravnborg
2004-03-01 22:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-03-02 15:21 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-03-02 18:31 ` Jeff Garzik
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