linux-kernel - Re: A proposal

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Message-ID: <44D24B31.2080802@vmware.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:14:57 -0700
From:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Jack Lo <jlo@...are.com>
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary

Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>   
>> Perhaps we can use this to encourage open sourced firmware layers,
>> instead of trying to ban drivers which rely on firmware from the
>> kernel.
>>     
>
> No one is trying to ban such drivers.  Well, except the odd people on
> debian-legal, but all the kernel developers know to ignore them :)
>   

That is good to know.  But there is a kernel option which doesn't make 
much sense in that case:

[*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware


Zach

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