Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:46:31 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: yacc dependency of aic7xxx driver |
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:29:45AM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >What about simply removing the firmware source and assembler from the > >kernel tree? We have lots of firmware in the kernel tree for which > >there isn't even firmware avaible... > > What, and not allow others to fix my bugs for me? :-) > > Lots of people have embedded this driver just because it is completely > open source. I'd like to have all distributions be "complete" > distributions.
Not having it in the kernel tree doesn't have to mean not having it in the distributions. If you are really concerned having iy in the kernel tree it might also be a good idea to have it in scripts.
Christoph
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