> I don't see why the necessarity of a kernel stub driver is a killer
> argument. The chip internals, which companies might want to protect are
> certainly not in the interrupt registers.

So they can go off and write themselves a driver. Without putting junk in
the kernel "just in case", and if the driver and the user space code
using it are closely interdependant I'd suggest they look up the *legal*
definition of derivative work.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to