Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:04:51 -0700 | From | asterix the gual <> | Subject | Re: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Summarizing the PWC driver questions/answers |
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One more to Gregkh's Q&A
Q. Is there anyother way to support the binary only driver? A. Yes. You can maintain a separate linux-pwc tree with the necessary hooks :)
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:40:00 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Sad, 2004-08-28 at 00:13, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Keeping drivers against the wishes of the authors in the tree would > > be very troubling for the future. I can assure you that no maintainer > > will lightly pull a driver in this way. > > Then the kernel community is no longer fit to use my code. So you should > remove everything I've written from Linus kernel too. I'll maintain my > own kernel. > > Oh gosh, look I've just crippled Linus tree and stolen his project. > Thats *WHY* you can't just rip drivers out. A license was granted, for > ever. You can certainly remove him from maintainers, and if he insists > from the author credits. > > Alan > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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