Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262275AbTESKIq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 06:08:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262328AbTESKIp (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 06:08:45 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:15626 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262275AbTESKIn (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 06:08:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC8AFE1.6090409@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:20:17 +0200 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neale Banks CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? References: 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 Content-Length: 1110 Lines: 31 Neale Banks wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2003, Pavel Machek wrote: >>[Really, if the card is common enough, and driver sources are >>available, they are going to be in kernel.org kernel within few weeks.] > > Iff: > (1) the sources etc constitute "sufficient" documentation (e.g. poke magic > value into magic register might not help enough :-( ). Sure. > (2) the sources are not only "included" but are "freely" modifiable and > redistributable. No need. As long as there is no NDA, which there isn't when you get a cd bundled with the thing. Restricted source then mean that you can't edit it so it fits your kernel and redistribute. But you can read it and see how the thing works, if (1) is satisfied. Then you use your knowledge and write a driver from scratch. More work, but legal. Of course a completely free driver is even better. :-) Helge Hafting - 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/