Robert Edmonds wrote: > Any modification to the tg3 driver to produce a GR 2006-004 compliant > driver would have to diverge from the kernel team's patch acceptance > guidelines[0] since upstream is intransigent[1] on making tg3 > firmware-free or firmware-optional. The kernel team does not appear to > be interested in maintaining such a driver, and it appears future linux > kernel source packages will be patched[2] to simply remove the blobs of > firmware (I don't know why the driver isn't simply removed entirely > since the result does not compile). This seems totally inappropriate.
If the driver includes non-free firmwares these should be removed or split up from the driver source, not remove the driver entirely. If what you say is right, the driver *works* for most of the hardware without non-free blobs. Therefore, I can't understand how removing the driver serves our users. Any rationale behind that decision? I feel like I'm arguing for something completely obvious... Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]