Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

Jörn Engel
2005-04-08T11:23:55Z

On Fri, 8 April 2005 09:22:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 23:07 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
>
> > As a contrast, read the discussion between Christoph and Arjan in a part
> > of this thread how to move firmware out of kernel drivers without
> > problems for the users. This might not happen today, but it's better for
> > the users.
>
> Some Debian developers have been writing such patches so that we can
> still run Linux on this hardware, long before the topic was raised on
> the LKML.

I can point you to dozens of patches I have written that were never
merged. Not because Linus is a d*ckhead (he's not), but because they
were not good enough then and I didn't spend the time to improve them,
so far.

"Someone's written some patches" is a long way from "we have a good
solution".

Jörn

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