Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:31 +0000 | From | Alan <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 |
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> I don't see why the necessarity of a kernel stub driver is a killer > argument. The chip internals, which companies might want to protect are > certainly not in the interrupt registers.
So they can go off and write themselves a driver. Without putting junk in the kernel "just in case", and if the driver and the user space code using it are closely interdependant I'd suggest they look up the *legal* definition of derivative work.
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