Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764975AbZDCN5h (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:57:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753254AbZDCN5Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:57:25 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:46363 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752467AbZDCN5Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:57:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:57:19 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: qcserial comes up in unhelpful custom mode? Message-ID: <20090403135719.GD19774@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20090401203726.GA17485@srcf.ucam.org> <20090403025654.GA20146@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090403025654.GA20146@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 843 Lines: 19 On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:56:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > But, I have heard reports of people dual-booting with other operating > systems and then successfully using the device under Linux with the > qcserial driver, so that is one solution for some users. So it's a driver that's useless without a closed source firmware loader, either in the form of a Linux userspace application that can't be distributed or in the form of Windows? I thought we'd decided that drivers weren't going to be merged in that case (poulsbow, the original 3945 driver) -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org -- 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/