From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262418AbUH0NNg (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:13:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264960AbUH0NNg (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:13:36 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:62952 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262418AbUH0NNe (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:13:34 -0400 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <412F337C.90206@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:13:32 +0200 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040815) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis Vlasenko CC: Wouter Van Hemel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches References: <33193.151.37.215.244.1093530681.squirrel@webmail.azzurra.org> <200408270917.47656.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <200408271604.35400.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> In-Reply-To: <200408271604.35400.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Denis Vlasenko wrote: | On Friday 27 August 2004 15:47, Wouter Van Hemel wrote: | |>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote: |>If the maintainer wants it pulled, I feel it would be stealing to add it |>back into the kernel without his approval. Perhaps we could rewrite the |>driver and merge it with some other webcam driver projects. | | | This is the problem. It is far easier to _feel_ something | than to _do_ something. Intersting, that in the legal case, people are having a bad feeling, but in illegal case of doing reverse-engineering, drivers make it into the kernel... Prakash -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBLzNuxU2n/+9+t5gRAhdaAKDMhNFwLUp8fe25fjPyk9in+87aLQCeJFu1 wZulPU+6czw5QAj8kJzHoQk= =v1k/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----