Re: [somewhat OT] binary modules agaaaain

From: Andrew McGregor
Date: Fri Apr 23 2004 - 06:30:26 EST


And it must, if only because there are laws that require some device drivers to be binary only.

I kid you not, take a look at the FCC software radio rules. Some wireless cards fall into their definition.

Wierd world, but there we go...

Andrew

--On Tuesday, 20 April 2004 5:08 p.m. +0200 Guennadi Liakhovetski <gl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> A binary module is "considered good" if

This is a false assumption IMO no binary only modules can be "good".

I agree! That was just an idea to make Linux life easier __if__ it
__must__ live with binary modules.

Thanks
Guennadi
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DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
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Germany

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