netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] Add Qualcomm Gobi 2000 driver.

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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=JTYE1Xi=kOWercpUsMzNEz5ZL+BBF5N2dk=ZB@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:18:01 -0700
From:	Jason Glasgow <jglasgow@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mjg59@...f.ucam.org, ellyjones@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	msb@...gle.com, olofj@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add Qualcomm Gobi 2000 driver.

David,

Yes, your concern is valid.  A distribution would have trouble
supporting this out of the box unless they negotiated with Qualcomm.
I believe that many years ago we had a similar situation with WiFi
devices and firmware.

I think the right thing to do is to encourage vendors to allow
redistribution of their firmware by showing them that the firmware is
already freely available on other platforms.

-Jason

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: Jason Glasgow <jglasgow@...gle.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:59:19 -0700
>
> > Firmware is available in Windows packages.  For example,
> >
> > DW5620 Mobile Broadband mini-card
> > http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=2684&l=en&s=pub&releaseid=R275082&SystemID=Lat_13&servicetag=4PLG5L1&os=W732&osl=en&deviceid=21977&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=2&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=20&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=406043
> >
> > <http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=2684&l=en&s=pub&releaseid=R275082&SystemID=Lat_13&servicetag=4PLG5L1&os=W732&osl=en&deviceid=21977&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=2&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=20&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=406043>The
> > problem is  that the firmware is non-redistributable, not non-distributable.
>
> So address my concern, how could a distribution support this device
> out of the box?
>
> I don't think it's possible.
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