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Message-ID: <20081230110536.GA15907@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:05:36 +0100
From: Andreas Mohr <andim2@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, bunk@...nel.org,
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:09:43PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 09:17 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > - acx100 (ok, that one is a bit mean to add to this list ;)
> >
> > What's that?
> >
> > Just resend everything, please, fulyl changelogged, with all necessary
> > cc's.
>
> acx100 is legally challenged. We don't want to see it without a clear
> and full indication by the authors that they can guarantee that it was
> written without any copyrighted Texas Instruments material. Which
> they've never bothered to provide.
True (and fully agreed), but then that particular entry was just meant
to stir up some fog, I didn't really intend to focus on it at all ;)
The project was based on non-clean-room reverse-engineering from the get-go
anyway (5 people working for 3 months),
thus the only way to get this unfortunate hardware non-support situation
resolved would be by trying to get TI (or possibly newer holders
of that technology) to extend its specifications/firmware blessing
to older variants, not just the Android device-related chipsets supported
by their new driver which they now provided, thankfully.
Andreas Mohr
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