Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:31 +0000
From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19
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> I don't see why the necessarity of a kernel stub driver is a killer
> argument. The chip internals, which companies might want to protect are
> certainly not in the interrupt registers.

So they can go off and write themselves a driver. Without putting junk in
the kernel "just in case", and if the driver and the user space code
using it are closely interdependant I'd suggest they look up the *legal*
definition of derivative work.

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