Re: A proposal - binary

[Zachary Amsden]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>   
> > Perhaps we can use this to encourage open sourced firmware layers,
> > instead of trying to ban drivers which rely on firmware from the
> > kernel.
> >     
>
> No one is trying to ban such drivers.  Well, except the odd people on
> debian-legal, but all the kernel developers know to ignore them :)
>   

That is good to know.  But there is a kernel option which doesn't make 
much sense in that case:

[*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware


Zach

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