On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 14:26 +0000, ext Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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 ?
I stopped trying after Linus Torvalds sent an e-mail to Andrew Morton and CC:ed me where he said that he wouldn't accept the driver because of the closed protocol. Matti > > 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 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-kernel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-kernel
