Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261675AbUCBP0N (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:26:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261682AbUCBP0N (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:26:13 -0500 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:48620 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261675AbUCBP0I (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:26:08 -0500 Message-ID: <4044A692.40106@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:21:54 -0500 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] kbuild: Add a binary only .o file to a module References: <20040301214617.GA7777@mars.ravnborg.org> 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: 894 Lines: 26 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Any objections from having this in the kernel? > [Please, please, this is only for 'legal' binary modules - so do not > start the usual 'binary modules should be GPL discussion']. > > This is a small step towards better support for external modules. I'll put in a vote for this. Unfortunately we have some hardware for which the only drivers available use binary blobs. Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - 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/