Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:04:17 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: pwc+pwcx is not illegal |
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:57:53PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 15:29, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Can we drop this straw-man discussion now? > > > > We don't do binary hooks in the kernel. Full stop. > > Sure. That has nothing to do with whether it would > be legal or not. It had been implied (by Greg KH) > that you thought Linux-specific proprietary drivers > using hooks are illegal.
No, I was trying to state that the hook itself was not allowed. I'll let others argue about the legality of the code using such a hook.
Sorry for any confusion about that.
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