Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:29:52 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only |
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 03:45:07PM +0100, Gilles Espinasse wrote: > >FYI, this is a patch that will be sent out in the next round to Linus > >for inclusion in 2.6.25. > > > >If anyone has any objections about it, please let me know. > > > .. > > There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this > > patch should cause no problems. > > There is the unicorn usb adsl modem driver (STM unicorn chip). > http://www.bewan.com/bewan/drivers/A1012-A1006-A904-A888-A983-0.9.3.tgz > There is some sources and a binary blob to be linked. > > The only things I know from the binary blob is that sources should be 150 000 > lines of C++.
Wow, larger than all the in-kernel USB drivers, and the USB core combined. That's an impressive display of horrible code :)
> Driver compile with gcc-3 but not with gcc-4 (because of the binary blob).
So they aren't even being used by modern distros, so there's not much to worry about here...
thanks for the info.
greg k-h
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