On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:17:05AM +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote: > what stops vendors of using the current existing code to achieve that > goal. They could provide binary drivers with the existing API.
If you feel lucky about the GPL > What stops companies to intercept the ioctl calls and overriding some > I2C commands? The GPL - derivative work is the boundary not code linkage. Possibly a userspace tuner hack would probably fit this too. Especially if a specific vendor is producing both bits together and trying to claim they are independant. > How about proprietary video formats, would you also place the decoding > algorithms in kernel just to force companies to release their code > for it? No, I would assume they'd provide a proprietary conversion library that no nobody would use (just like their hw). We keep format conversion firmly seperated from hardware I/O processing. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
