Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:02:32 -0800: > FYI, this is a patch that will be sent out in the next round to Linus > for inclusion in 2.6.25. > > If anyone has any objections about it, please let me know. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > -------- > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only > > Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed > there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the > GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision. > > There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch > should cause no problems.
The near paperweight of Avermedia A828 Hybrid FM Volar nevertheless works with their closed module[1] at least as a digital tuner and a pretty crap FM tuner, despite the warning in syslog that it will no longer work in short order. Yes, I was suckered in by their claim that "it works under Linux", wasn't I? I would have thought it would be fairly easy to write open drivers for it, given that it has pretty standard chips: Cypress FX2, WM8739, Conexant CX2584x, Xceive XC3028 and Zarlink MT352 [1] http://www.avermedia.com/EN/default.aspx?TYPE=test.htm&PT=downloadD1&tv_TCAT_POS=0&CATNO0=D&IDX=2.1&CNT=1&CATNO1=D2&PID=471071067-1556&UCN=BAB4C http://www.avermedia.com/images/www.avermedia.com_EN/A828_LinuxDrv_v0.07_x86Beta.zip - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
