linux-kernel - Re: qcserial comes up in unhelpful custom mode?

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Date:	Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:57:19 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qcserial comes up in unhelpful custom mode?

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? I thought we'd decided that 
drivers weren't going to be merged in that case (poulsbow, the original 
3945 driver)

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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