Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:54:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:54:49 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:49281 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:54:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:52:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: yacc dependency of aic7xxx driver In-Reply-To: <200103071529.f27FTjO26978@aslan.scsiguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >What about simply removing the firmware source and assembler from the > >kernel tree? We have lots of firmware in the kernel tree for which > >there isn't even firmware avaible... > > What, and not allow others to fix my bugs for me? :-) > > Lots of people have embedded this driver just because it is completely > open source. I'd like to have all distributions be "complete" > distributions. > > -- > Justin alias yacc='bison -y' If you don't have one of these, you don't have the tools necessary to do kernel development. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips). "Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation obtained from the Micro$oft help desk. - 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/