> > Why isn't this driver upstream? > > We tried. No success. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/23/191
You didn't try very hard it seems ? And is the spec in question still closed, is the hardware in fact tightly tied to a non-free userspace ? With my upstream hat on we have to be very careful about this because a GPL piece of kernel code closely tied to and not usable without a non-free component could be considered to be one work and then we get into the realm of people in suits ties and briefcases, which is a place we prefer not to go. Secondly its very bad to have undocumented, untestable interfaces which is what you are asking for. I appreciate there may be reasons it's been done that way, for example if the GPS enforces the checks against certain classes of usage in software but again with kernel upstream hat on, our primary job is to make sure the kernel is testable, documented, complete and open. Alan _______________________________________________ MeeGo-kernel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-kernel
