Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It sounds like you are now looking at the question of are the > > huge string of hex characters the preferred form for making > > modifications to firmware. Personally I would be surprised > > but those hunks are small enough it could have been written

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:22:36PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > For tg3 a transition period shouldn't be needed as firmware loading > > is only needed on old/buggy hardware which is not the common case. > > Or to sup

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ > > > weren't going to do it, but if you want to t