Re: qcserial comes up in unhelpful custom mode?

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 09:57:38 EST


On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:56:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> But, I have heard reports of people dual-booting with other operating
> systems and then successfully using the device under Linux with the
> qcserial driver, so that is one solution for some users.

So it's a driver that's useless without a closed source firmware loader,
either in the form of a Linux userspace application that can't be
distributed or in the form of Windows? I thought we'd decided that
drivers weren't going to be merged in that case (poulsbow, the original
3945 driver)

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