Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:46:54 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Michael Leun <ml@newton.leun.net>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: solved: 2.6.23 && fglrx && s2ram
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:33:14AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 01:49:07AM +0200, Michael Leun wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:31:17 +0200
>>> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, 12 October 2007 00:07, Michael Leun wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> (please, don't blame me for using the binary only driver, I will
>>>>> happily switch to a open source one once it properly runs mplayer,
>>>>> e.g.).
>>>>>
>>>>> Renaming the config options for suspend/sleep broke fglrx power
>>>>> management.
>>>> It looks like your patch is against the fglrx driver, isn't it?
>>> It is - I should have mentioned that, sorry.
>> This makes it 100% off-topic for linux-kernel - please send patches for 
>> illegal modules to the vendors of these modules and not here.
> Which would help the actual users of the module not one whit. Whereas 
> putting the patch here helps the people who need it and allows multiple 
> people to complain to the vendor.
>...

The vendor has his own forums and support channels.
That's what the term "off-topic" describes.

And what's worst is that people on this list might become tainted 
by seeing part of the fglrx source code.

cu
Adrian

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