Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 08:12:37 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qcserial comes up in unhelpful custom mode?
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On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 08:03:01AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > I thought we'd decided that drivers weren't going to be merged in that
> > case (poulsbow, the original 3945 driver)
> 
> We have lots of drivers that rely on firmware that is not in the kernel
> to work properly, I see this as just the same thing.
> 
> And again, I have been assured that the code is going to be distributed
> soon, and that others are already using the driver successfully.

Hm, look at the linux-usb list, someone has posted a shell script that
gets the hardware to work properly already.

So you should be good to go now.

thanks,

greg k-h
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