On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, vb <vb@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> so, say a developer submits a proprietary driver and it gets accepted. > > Doesn't happen. By design. If the driver is proprietary then it is presumably > not meant for open distribution, and hence not compatible with GPL and > widespread distribution into 100,000 public git repositories. So it won't > get submitted and it won't get accepted. > I guess 'proprietary' is not the right term then, how do you call a driver which is not a secret and not a problem to release, but controls some hardware present in only in certain devices of a certain company. Would such a driver be accepted? Wouldn't such a driver get stale after a few kernel releases? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
