On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:23:29AM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html > > > > > > Can you summarize the conclusion of the thread, or what you did get from > > > it, > > > please ? > > > > That people didn't like the inclusion of firmware, I posted how you can > > fix it by moving it outside of the kernel, and asked for patches. > > > > None have come. > > Didn't know you were waiting for it. How about something like the > following series of patches? > > [01/04] - add simple Intel IHEX format parser to the firmware loader. > [02/04] - make the keyspan driver use request_firmware. > [03/04] - converter program used to dump the keyspan headers as IHex files. > [04/04] - result of running the previous program. > > This ofcourse doesn't actually solve Debian's distribution issues since > the keyspan firmware can only be distributed as part of 'Linux or other > Open Source operating system kernel'.
Well, if this is the case, it can be distributed on the non-free archive. > > So I refuse to listen to talk about this, as obviously, no one cares > > enough about this to actually fix the issue. > > I got tired of always building my own kernels on Debian just to get my > serial dongle to work since their included keyspan.ko driver is so > useless that it isn't even worth having. The only way to use it with a > Debian kernel is to have the dongle in a powered hub and first boot into > Windows or a normal kernel.org kernel to get the thing initialized. The non-free driver package should solve that for you. > Didn't send the patch earlier since I wanted to split off the > pre-numeration part of the driver so that after intialization we can > unload the unused parts of the driver as well as the the firmware class > module. Friendly, Sven Luther - 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/