From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linville@tuxdriver.com, Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Subject: Re: wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 18:15:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060604181515.8faa8fcf.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060605010636.GB17361@havoc.gtf.org>
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:06:36 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > acx1xx-wireless-driver.patch
> > fix-tiacx-on-alpha.patch
> > tiacx-fix-attribute-packed-warnings.patch
> > tiacx-pci-build-fix.patch
> > tiacx-ia64-fix.patch
> >
> > It is about time we did something with this large and presumably useful
> > wireless driver.
>
> I've never had technical objections to merging this, just AFAIK it had a
> highly questionable origin, namely being reverse-engineered in a
> non-clean-room environment that might leave Linux legally vulnerable.
I never knew that.
<reads changelog>
<reads website>
<reads wiki>
I still don't know that. Denis, do you know the details?
> If we can clear that hurdle, by all means pass it on to John Linville
> and get it moving towards upstream.
OK, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-05 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-06-05 1:06 ` wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) Jeff Garzik
2006-06-05 1:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-06-05 8:33 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-06-05 8:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05 10:26 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-05 10:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05 10:59 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-10 6:58 ` Pavel Machek
2006-06-05 8:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-05 12:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-05 12:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05 12:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-05 14:02 ` Linux kernel and laws Adrian Bunk
2006-06-05 14:21 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-06-06 5:33 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-05 13:27 ` wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) John W. Linville
2006-06-05 13:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-05 13:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05 16:24 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 14:26 ` ACX100 (softmac-based) driver ready to merge, but is it legal? -- " John W. Linville
[not found] ` <20060629144233.GB24463@tuxdriver.com>
2006-06-29 14:47 ` [Acx100-users] Denis Vlasenko, where are you? (mail bounced) Andreas Mohr
2006-07-06 17:29 ` ACX100 (softmac-based) driver ready to merge, but is it legal? Denis Vlasenko
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