>>> On Tue, May 1, 2007 at  2:45 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Little, Chris"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Wouldn't it be possible to have a public interface and private
> non-kernel version/distribution specific code?  I'm certainly not a
> kernel hacker, so I p'raps I'm talking out my back-end here.

It's technically possible, but politically a bad thing.  The kernel developers 
call them "binary blobs" and there is continuous argument over whether they're 
legal under the GPL or not.


Mark Post

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