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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:23:06 +0100 From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Kasper Sandberg <lkml@...anurb.dk>, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, Jan Dittmer <jdi@....org>, Jirka Lenost Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ipw2100-admin@...ux.intel.com Subject: Re: ipw3945 status On Monday 31 July 2006 00:12, Pavel Machek wrote: [snip] > And... Intel will not even tell you WTF that daemon does. They claim > it is for FCC, but it seems to be doing more than that. So maybe I'm > not _that_ paranoid. Agreed, from what Matthew's said it seems like the daemon is being used to hide intellectual property, not something we should really be encouraging. I think the title "regulatory daemon" has multiple meanings, it REGULATES your frequencies to FCC specs, it REGULATES your wireless card's power and temperature levels, and it REGULATES your right to use the hardware ;-) Ultimately the question remains, will we open this can of worms by accepting drivers that depend on proprietary software (i.e. they will not function at all without it). I'm fairly sure the answer should be "No". -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - 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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