Some folks are more ideological than practical, but most people use The the importance of the GPL and the rights it gives you is more In my opinion it's exactly the opposite, acceptance and
You seem to think that acceptance of Linux is somehow more important You wouldn't know how much time and resources these things cost
Kernel patches have caused numerous users to report alleged driver bugs Non-standard, unreported and hard to detect Many other users may have done the same thing? Kernel was really tainted because it didn't report that fact.
Reported kernel BUG's while your drivers were loaded, not realizing emulating results when they are in fact not the real thing?Īfter reading this I realized that I myself have probably Projects "lie" and represent real-world evils by technically pretending Work around things and provide increased comfort and compatibility.Įntire GPL projects like wine, reactos, ndiswrapper (an open-sourceĬlone of our DriverLoader), and even the linux kernel itself implementįoreign APIs or many workarounds to make programs or drivers function,Įven believe that they are running in another environment. It is very common practice to simulate the perception of software to That I am forced to used to lie about that fact and try to pretend to I'm reluctant to use proprietary drivers and certainly don't expect In my opinion your actions also represent a real-world evil. Unfortunately are a necessary real-world evil Sometimes resort to such kludges is that some kernel maintainers haveīeen rather reluctant to accommodate proprietary drivers which I would like however to point out that part of the reason why people Thousands of individual customers, we wouldn't have bothered with the If the issue hadn't been a real confusing / usability problem for I'm sorry, but the typical user of EMC PowerPath cannot really be Means that the kernel can no longer be supported by the Linux
Simply used their documentation to tell the user that these messages If you have made changes to the HBA’s, or I/O paths, just execute powermt check, to take appropriate action.
How to identify the version number of EMC PowerPath software powermt version EMC powermt for PowerPath (c) Version 5.3 (build 185) 10. EMC PowerPath compares well to your example as itĬonsist of multiple modules and each one spits out a message. powermt version Display EMC PowerPath Version. Systems, things like the NVidia binary driver, EMC PowerPath, VMwareīinary module, etc. I use a myriad of different binary drivers on various Linux Well, as one of your customers (I am a paid/licensed user of yourĬonexant modem drivers for my Dell D800) I am completely turned off by Rather than waste time arguing about controversial GPL politics. We generally prefer to focus on making stuff work for users, On Apr 28, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Tom Sightler wrote: Next in thread: Stephen Hemminger: "Re: Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license".In reply to: Tom Sightler: "Re: Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license".Previous message: Greg KH: "Re: USB: add new USB PhidgetServo driver".Next message: Meelis Roos: "Re: New warning from nfs code".Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license Re: Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license From: Marc Boucher