From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266572AbUHaFE5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:04:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266585AbUHaFE4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:04:56 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com ([216.239.56.249]:34109 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266572AbUHaFEy (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:04:54 -0400 Message-ID: <54b5dbf5040830220435b14550@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:04:51 -0700 From: asterix the gual Reply-To: asterix the gual To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Summarizing the PWC driver questions/answers In-Reply-To: <1093786799.27934.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040827215445.01c4ddb0@inet.uni2.dk> <6.1.2.0.2.20040827233253.01c36210@inet.uni2.dk> <200408280113.27530.oliver@neukum.org> <1093786799.27934.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org One more to Gregkh's Q&A Q. Is there anyother way to support the binary only driver? A. Yes. You can maintain a separate linux-pwc tree with the necessary hooks :) On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:40:00 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2004-08-28 at 00:13, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Keeping drivers against the wishes of the authors in the tree would > > be very troubling for the future. I can assure you that no maintainer > > will lightly pull a driver in this way. > > Then the kernel community is no longer fit to use my code. So you should > remove everything I've written from Linus kernel too. I'll maintain my > own kernel. > > Oh gosh, look I've just crippled Linus tree and stolen his project. > Thats *WHY* you can't just rip drivers out. A license was granted, for > ever. You can certainly remove him from maintainers, and if he insists > from the author credits. > > Alan > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >