Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 05:25:01 EST


sl@whiskey.fireplug.net said:
> M-Systems is in the process of creating a new driver that works as a
> module and contains no GPL code.

A modular driver for rootfs doesn't really strike me as being particularly
useful on an embedded system where you're trying to save every byte
possible, and you don't want to waste space on initrd support.

We're working on creating a new driver that works either as a module or
linked into the kernel, and is 100% GPL code. I think that's probably the
better option, in the long term.

:)

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dwmw2

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