Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932204AbWHCTO6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:14:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932440AbWHCTO6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:14:58 -0400 Received: from mailout1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.130]:54734 "EHLO mailout1.vmware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932204AbWHCTO5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:14:57 -0400 Message-ID: <44D24B31.2080802@vmware.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:14:57 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Jack Lo Subject: Re: A proposal - binary References: <44D1CC7D.4010600@vmware.com> <1154603822.2965.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <44D23B84.6090605@vmware.com> <20060803190327.GA14237@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060803190327.GA14237@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 813 Lines: 25 Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote: > >> Perhaps we can use this to encourage open sourced firmware layers, >> instead of trying to ban drivers which rely on firmware from the >> kernel. >> > > No one is trying to ban such drivers. Well, except the odd people on > debian-legal, but all the kernel developers know to ignore them :) > That is good to know. But there is a kernel option which doesn't make much sense in that case: [*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware Zach - 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/