Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible | From | Adrian Cox <> | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:08:31 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 23:49, Helge Hafting wrote:
> 1. don't _link_ the proprietary file into the kernel, ship firmware & logo > as separate files along with the distro. No problem.
USB serial drivers could be implemented in userspace given a 2.6 version of Rogier Wolff's userspace serial patch: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.1/att-1075/01-patch-2.4.20.trueport-12-mrt
We currently have a lot of USB drivers in the kernel that could be implemented in userspace. I'm thinking of drivers/usb/image, misc, and serial particularly. If there was a userspace API to do for video capture what SANE does for scanners, drivers/usb/media would be mostly unneeded as well.
If vendors noticed that this was possible, we'd probably get more binary userspace drivers for USB devices. I pass no judgement here as to whether this would be good or bad.
- Adrian Cox Humboldt Solutions Ltd.
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