Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: Preferred way to load non-free firmware | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:47:27 +0100 |
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Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2003 11:48 schrieb Nick Craig-Wood: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:11:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > 7) Encode the firmware into a header file, add it to the driver and > > > pretend that the copyright issue doesn't exist (like it's done in the > > > Keyspan USB driver). > > > > Hey, that's the way I like doing this stuff :) > > If you do this the Debian kernel mainainers will mercilessly rip your > non-free driver firmware from the standard Debian kernel. At least > that is what happened with the Keyspan :-(
That's their problem then. Or rather their users. IMHO a maintainer's responsibility ends at kernel.org. From a technical point of view the firmware needs to be in ram when you resume from sleep. If you don't care about updating it, having it in the kernel image uses somewhat less resources. So I'd say go for it.
Regards Oliver
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