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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 08:03:01 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: qcserial comes up in unhelpful custom mode? On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:57:19PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:56:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > But, I have heard reports of people dual-booting with other operating > > systems and then successfully using the device under Linux with the > > qcserial driver, so that is one solution for some users. > > So it's a driver that's useless without a closed source firmware loader, > either in the form of a Linux userspace application that can't be > distributed or in the form of Windows? Hm, I originally thought that as well, but I have a laptop here that doesn't seem to need the firmware code at all (I deleted it and rebooted from poweroff and everything worked fine.) So it seems it depends on the hardware platform. > 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. I understand your frustration, sorry. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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