Re: A proposal - binary

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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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