> > Go to <URL: http://www.equinox.com/tech/ftp_sst2.htm#a7>, look for
> > "kernel bug". Anyone who advocates binary-only drivers should be
> > forced to try to get an Equinox SST card working on 2.0.35.
> >
> > In this case the driver is even available as Intel assembly code,
> > obviously made by gcc.
>
> Its also derived from Ted Tso's serial driver and seems in violation of the GPL
> if you compare their assembler with the output of gcc -S on serial.c
>
> The good side of that btw, is its probably trivial to turn their driver
> back into C since you can paste bits back into serial.c
Can Tso comment on this? The price of having closed drivers is that you
can't derrive from other drivers, we can't let them have their cake and
eat it too. :)
> Alan
>
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