Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760972AbYG3Jlh (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:41:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752756AbYG3Jla (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:41:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41124 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751812AbYG3Jl3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:41:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:40:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tilman Schmidt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Q: support for AVM Fritz! WLAN USB in kernel 2.6.25+ Message-Id: <20080730024054.aa41729a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <488EDC63.8060700@imap.cc> References: <488EDC63.8060700@imap.cc> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) 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: 987 Lines: 30 On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:01:23 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Commit 782e70c6fc2290a0395850e8e02583b8b62264d8, which went into > 2.6.25, broke AVM's closed-source driver for this device: commit 782e70c6fc2290a0395850e8e02583b8b62264d8 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Fri Jan 25 11:12:21 2008 -0600 USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only It would. > ID 057c:62ff AVM GmbH WLAN USB v1.1 (cdrom mode) > ID 057c:6201 AVM GmbH WLAN USB v1.1 > > Is there an open source alternative for that driver, There doesn't seem to be one in-tree. But linux-usb and/or linux-wireless might be better places to ask. > or do systems > with that device have to stay with kernel 2.6.24? It seems that way. -- 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/