On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:34:09 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:17:36 -0800 > > Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Then init_net needs to be not GPL limited. Sorry, we need to allow > >> non GPL network drivers. There is a fine line between keeping the > >> binary seething masses from accessing random kernel functions, and allowing > >> reasonable (but still non GPL) things like ndiswrapper to use network > >> device interface. > >> > > I spoke too soon earlier, ndiswrapper builds and loads against current > > 2.6.24-rc3. Vmware and proprietary VPN software probably do not. Once again > > I don't > > give a damn, but the enterprise distro vendors certainly care. > ... > > Naw, enterprise (or any other) distro vendors shouldn't have any issues here, > since they can just patch their kernels around any issues. > > But it looks like Eric has this one thought out well enough. So you are saying all this is not a problem, fine. Any affected parties can certainly lobby for themselves. But I suspect they all think the kernel community is a bunch of ... and will just ignore the problem. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
