Message-Id: <200612240311.kBO3Bhrh014455@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Marek Wawrzyczny <marekw1977@yahoo.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:28:25 CDT."
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:11:43 -0300
From: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:34:54 +1100, Marek Wawrzyczny said:

[...]

> > Perhaps we just report on the individual devices then... forget the system 
> > rating.

> OK, *that* I see as potentially useful - I frequently get handed older
> boxen with strange gear

== gear for which there is probably no documentation at all

>                         in them, and need a way to figure out if I want to
> install software,

LiveCD of your choice...

>                   or cannibalize it for parts. Also helpful if a buddy has
> a Frankintel box they build, and they want to know if they can install
> something other than Windows.... 

Same as above.

> Bonus points if it sees a card that has a known out-of-tree driver and
> tells you where to find it and what its license status is (I just went
> down that road with an Intel 3945)...

If in-tree driver is already a challange, out-of-tree is hopeless.
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