On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:42:42PM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote: > Basically, I'd rather have a closed userspace app whisper the secret > numbers to the hardware than have a close/binary only kernel module do > the same. > > Presumable somebody can sniff out what those secret numbers are (in a > legal fashion) then the someone can fork a new driver that includes that > functionality. Goodbye closed userspace app! > > The question is, would Jeff Garzik / Linus accept the forked driver into > the kernel? Maybe that's the purpose of the binary userland bits to help reverse engineer it. ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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