Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261727AbVC1NWa (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:22:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261737AbVC1NWa (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:22:30 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:3558 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261727AbVC1NW0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:22:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:14:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Aaron Gyes cc: Adrian Bunk , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Kyle Moffett , Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!. In-Reply-To: <1111951014.9831.4.camel@localhost> Message-ID: References: <1111886147.1495.3.camel@localhost> <490243b66dc7c3f592df7a7d0769dcb7@mac.com> <1111913399.6297.28.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <16d78e9ea33380a1f1ad90c454fb6e1d@mac.com> <20050327180417.GD3815@gallifrey> <20050327183522.GM4285@stusta.de> <1111951014.9831.4.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1516 Lines: 35 On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Aaron Gyes wrote: > > And then the user want to upgrade the 2.0 kernel that shipped with this > > box although the company that made the hardware went bankrupt some years > > ago. > > > > If the user has the source of the driver, he can port the driver or hire > > someone to port the driver (this "obscure piece of hardware" might also > > be an expensive piece of hardware). > > So what? Sure, GPL'd drivers are easier for an end-user in that case. > What does that have to do with law? What about what's better for the > company that made the device? Should NVIDIA be forced to give up their > secrets to all their competitors because some over zealous developers ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > say so? Should the end-users of the current drivers be forced to lose ^^^^^^^ > out on features such as sysfs and udev compatability? Because otherwise they are violating someone else's copyright? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/