Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265048AbUFVSoe (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:44:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265089AbUFVSoP (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:44:15 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:36806 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265048AbUFVSmW (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:42:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:42:20 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Petr Vandrovec Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness Message-ID: <20040622184220.GF20632@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Petr Vandrovec References: <20040622151236.GE20632@lug-owl.de> <20040622173215.GA6300@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YsNt2QKQqRd9BMTd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040622173215.GA6300@infradead.org> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1842 Lines: 54 --YsNt2QKQqRd9BMTd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-06-22 18:32:15 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote in message <20040622173215.GA6300@infradead.org>: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:12:36PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > Just merge the vmware modules upstream. Then, such breakage will be > > detected early and probably fixed without putting a lot of work into it > > (from your point of view). >=20 > a) vmware modules themselves aren't under a free license That can be changed. > b) even if they were there's not really much interest in modules that can= 't > work with non-free userspace =2E..as well as this issue. They'd get some (limited but sufficient) free maintainence for their software back. See? No technical issues 8^P The very same could be said about 4Front's OSS drivers. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --YsNt2QKQqRd9BMTd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA2H2MHb1edYOZ4bsRAuV7AJ4pDpt1t/+hXGMSqHwKNBp+GUyeRQCdHIfj g5k4BNeJduXV5SS4jBUxKYo= =RzkP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YsNt2QKQqRd9BMTd-- - 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/