Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271330AbTHRIXh (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 04:23:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271333AbTHRIXh (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 04:23:37 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:53767 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271330AbTHRIXg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 04:23:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3F408EC9.809@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:31:05 +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: Brandon Stewart , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Centrino support References: <1060972810.29086.8.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> <3F3D469B.2020507@yahoo.com> 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: 1042 Lines: 26 Brandon Stewart wrote: > I thought that this line of argument was due to FCC regulations. That > is, software settings would allow the hardware to violate frequency or > strength-of-signal limitations set by government regulations. This is > only from memory, so feel free to correct. This does not in any way prevent them from releasing a driver, open or closed source. It merely makes tampering with the driver illegal. And it doesn't prevent them from merely releasing programming specs if they're too cheap to make a driver either. Of course whoever programs the driver will then have to get approved by the bureaucracy himself, or leave it to some linux vendor before it can be (legally) used. No driver _and_ no specs means they aren't supporting linux at the moment. 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/