Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261732AbUCBSbX (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:31:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261731AbUCBSbX (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:31:23 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:25528 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261732AbUCBSbW (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:31:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4044D2ED.401@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:31:09 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Friesen CC: Sam Ravnborg , 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> <4044A692.40106@nortelnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <4044A692.40106@nortelnetworks.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: 749 Lines: 25 Chris Friesen wrote: > 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. Shouldn't we discourage this practice where feasible? :) Jeff - 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/