Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:26:50 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0 |
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:08:12PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 06/27/2007 11:52 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 04:53:58PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > >> Al Viro wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:18:36AM +0200, Zolt?n HUBERT wrote: > >>>> And as I understand it, this is (was ?) the whole point of > >>>> stable/development kernels. "We" can trust a newer stable > >>>> kernel to be a drop-in replacement for an older stable > >>>> kernel (from the same series), while development kernels > >>>> need time to stabilise with the new whizz-bang-pfouit stuff > >>>> that you all so nicely add. > >>> "Drop-in" in which sense? That out-of-tree modules keep working? > >>> Not really... > >> Al, be reasonable. There are many out-of-tree GPL modules that won't be > >> accepted into mainline, never mind those that shouldn't be accepted. But > >> these modules do have a right to not be obsoleted by constant API changes. > > > > "have a right" are strong words. > > Who is granting them this right? > > > >> You are effectively inhibiting the development of an out-of-tree GPL module > >> pool, by constantly pulling the rug under that community. > >> > >> Do you think this is fair? > > > > Why are these modules not submitted for inclusion into the kernel? > > > > I was trying to figure that out for this one: > > http://code.ximeta.com/trac-ndas > > No mention of ever trying to get this upstream AFAICT... but this is > interesting: > > The linux market is limited comparing that of MS Windows. > it is very hard for us to support the various linux distros. > we, Ximeta, are trying to support those requests as many as > we can, though the resources are very limited.
One of their module contains a 180 kB binary blob and MODULE_LICENSE("Proprietary, Send bug reports to support@ximeta.com").
And it calls tons of functions EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed by their other 3 modules that are MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL")...
cu Adrian
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