On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:05:42AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:10:48PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > If they're binary-only, I doubt much compilation will be necessary. > > They don't just come out of nowhere you know...
"Binary-only" is a misnomer, since one could translate them to ASCII or EBDIC if they wanted to. I'm not quite sure whether you're describing non-free kernel modules or kernel modules distributed in precompiled form (or both of the above). There's no reason to put up with either.