Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758166AbYGGVp1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:45:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756137AbYGGVpL (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:45:11 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:59102 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755618AbYGGVpJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:45:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080707.144505.67398603.davem@davemloft.net> To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: jeff@garzik.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, andi@firstfloor.org, tytso@mit.edu, hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080707214218.055bcb35@the-village.bc.nu> References: <20080707193008.17795d61@the-village.bc.nu> <20080707.134832.189558582.davem@davemloft.net> <20080707214218.055bcb35@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 638 Lines: 17 From: Alan Cox Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 21:42:18 +0100 > > 2) You cannot deny the fine mess we have with proprietary modules and > > such these days. It has been quite the pandora's box over time. > > You seem to be trying to conflate legal and technical issues here. Exactly like the patches we are current discussing. Thanks for walking right into that. :-) -- 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/