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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdX3F9rvD3Fzbc1dwm7Vm73VW1x5ETbxkk-jJm3Bpr5i+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:39:28 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging

Hi Johannes,

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 5:28 PM Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 16:36 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > ps3-gelic-wireless
>
> Didn't Sony disable Linux on PS3 eventually? Though maybe someone still
> has some devices with old software.

If you didn't update the firmware, you could keep on using Linux.

And people may have found a vulnerability in more recent firmware
versions that allows them to run custom software.
I don't know, it's been +10 years ago I touched a PS3 ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

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