Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

[Alan]

> I don't see why the necessarity of a kernel stub driver is a killer
> argument. The chip internals, which companies might want to protect are
> certainly not in the interrupt registers.

So they can go off and write themselves a driver. Without putting junk in
the kernel "just in case", and if the driver and the user space code
using it are closely interdependant I'd suggest they look up the *legal*
definition of derivative work.

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