I am not a lawyer, so don't use this as your legal advice. This
is just laymen's interpretation of the situation.
There are two separate legal restrictions discussed in
linux-2.4.3/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_usa18x_fw.h: trade secret
and copyright.
The trade secret state
Joseph Carter wrote:
>
> I have a USB keyboard made for a mac which features two dead keys which
> showkey and xev do not see - the power button and the numeric keypad's =
> key. Are these keys not seen at the driver level or at the hardware
> level? If the former, a patch to the HID source sho
Quoting Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I thought that GPL prohibited copyrights like that to be mixed with
> > GPL:ed code?
>
> Its not linked to the kernel.
Lennart asks about -redistribution- of the source. This alone already
violates the copyright that he quoted. This header not only does
> I thought that GPL prohibited copyrights like that to be mixed with
> GPL:ed code?
Its not linked to the kernel.
Thought experiment. If the firmware was in a rom, or the firmware was uploaded
totally independantly into the microcontroller would it work ?
_
Dmitri wrote:
> Quoting Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Dmitri wrote:
> >
> > > Quoting Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > > > I'm trying to understand what the copyright for the firmware for the
> > > > Keyspan serial adapters really means. It's certainly not GPL...
Quoting Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dmitri wrote:
>
> > Quoting Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > I'm trying to understand what the copyright for the firmware for the
> > > Keyspan serial adapters really means. It's certainly not GPL...
> > >
> > >"The firmware
Dmitri wrote:
> Quoting Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I'm trying to understand what the copyright for the firmware for the
> > Keyspan serial adapters really means. It's certainly not GPL...
> >
> >"The firmware contained herein as keyspan_usa18x_fw.h is
> >Copyright (C)
Quoting Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm trying to understand what the copyright for the firmware for the
> Keyspan serial adapters really means. It's certainly not GPL...
>
>"The firmware contained herein as keyspan_usa18x_fw.h is
>Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Keyspan, A divisi
I'm trying to understand what the copyright for the firmware for the
Keyspan serial adapters really means. It's certainly not GPL...
"The firmware contained herein as keyspan_usa18x_fw.h is
Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Keyspan, A division of InnoSys Incorporated
("Keyspan"), as an unpublishe
hello,
I would like to announce the existance of a UML USB Host Controller. This HC
allows the usage of
usb devices in uml. This would give uml direct access to keyboards, mice, serial
ports, modems,
ethernet dongles, SCSI hardware, camera's, printers and everything else the usb
subsy
Quoting Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Also, anyone who can extract a programming specs from Xirlink
> > will be very much a hero. Generations of knigh^Wdevelopers tried
> > to accomplish this, but nobody succeeded so far.
>
> Have you looked into this:
> http://www.cameratechsupport.com/
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:49:51 -0700
> From: Dmitri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[...]
> Also, anyone who can extract a programming specs from Xirlink
> will be very much a hero. Generations of knigh^Wdevelopers tried
> to accomplish this, but nobody succeeded so far.
Have you
The alignment isn't necessary, and
I'll hope those are fields inside a struct
that's allocated with kmalloc or similar ...
- Davve
- Original Message -
From: "Brad Hards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Bulk
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > -static DECLARE_FSTYPE(usbdevice_fs_type, "usbdevfs", usbdevfs_read_super,
>FS_SINGLE);
> > +static DECLARE_FSTYPE(usbdevice_fs_type, "usbdevfs", usbdevfs_read_super, 0);
> No this turns off multimount protection and lets anyone break the machine..
so wh
>
> -static DECLARE_FSTYPE(usbdevice_fs_type, "usbdevfs", usbdevfs_read_super,
>FS_SINGLE);
> +static DECLARE_FSTYPE(usbdevice_fs_type, "usbdevfs", usbdevfs_read_super, 0);
>
No this turns off multimount protection and lets anyone break the machine..
--- linux/drivers/usb/inode.c.chmou Fri Apr 13 03:33:35 2001
+++ linux/drivers/usb/inode.c Fri Apr 13 04:27:45 2001
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@
return NULL;
}
-static DECLARE_FSTYPE(usbdevice_fs_type, "usbdevfs", usbdevfs_read_super, FS_SINGLE);
+static DECLARE_FSTYPE(usbdevice_fs_type,
I have a USB keyboard made for a mac which features two dead keys which
showkey and xev do not see - the power button and the numeric keypad's =
key. Are these keys not seen at the driver level or at the hardware
level? If the former, a patch to the HID source should make those keys
mappable if
Quoting Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> who is the ibmcam guy? The Documentation/usb/ibmcam.txt only gives
> credit to Johannes and Randy, but does not mention the author.
Looks fine to me :-)
There is a link at http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html
Documentation in the kernel is too old b
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