Re: Preferred way to load non-free firmware

From: Nick Craig-Wood (ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 05:48:56 EST

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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:11:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 7) Encode the firmware into a header file, add it to the driver and
> > pretend that the copyright issue doesn't exist (like it's done in the
> > Keyspan USB driver).
>
> Hey, that's the way I like doing this stuff :)

If you do this the Debian kernel mainainers will mercilessly rip your
non-free driver firmware from the standard Debian kernel. At least
that is what happened with the Keyspan :-(

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Nick Craig-Wood
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