Re: please
martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> also sprach Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> [2007.06.06.1651 +0200]:
>> OTOH we will happily ship any driver which uses a "crap,
>> security-hole-ridden, and often incompatible firmware" as long as
>> it is present in an EEPROM. Not a great argument.
>
> Except then it does not have to interface with the kernel ABI and
> cause headaches for our kernel maintainers.
Nor does loadable firmware. Are you confusing it with closed-source
kernel code like in madwifi?
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