Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264401AbUD0XF4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:05:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264402AbUD0XF4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:05:56 -0400 Received: from [66.35.79.110] ([66.35.79.110]:63117 "EHLO www.hockin.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264401AbUD0XFy (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:05:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:05:45 -0700 From: Tim Hockin To: "Robert M. Stockmann" Cc: Michael Poole , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license Message-ID: <20040427230545.GA15747@hockin.org> References: <878ygh147m.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1176 Lines: 22 On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:59:23AM +0200, Robert M. Stockmann wrote: > look i have made complaints about gcc-3.x some time ago, on the gcc > mailinglist. Also there they put my opinions aside, with arguments > like any powerfull feature can be used in a bad and in a good way. > The powerfull feature here is the C99 coding style, which allows for > unnamed and anonymous structures and unions. Don't kill our C99 cause it > can do bad things. Of course not. > If every major hardware vendor (like e.g. Adaptec, LSI Logic) will change > its policy, to implement its drivers as semi- binary only kernel modules, like > Promise did with its FastTrak line of controllers, like in the example above, > the Open Source lable of the linux kernel can be placed into the computer > museum. Isn't that exactly what a certain Redmond software company wants > to achieve? What the hell do these two paragraphs have to do with each other? - 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/