On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 06:18:35PM +0530, Saket Sinha wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Please find my response inline- > > >> > >> We have a rpm which installs a linux kernel driver. Now this > >> driver has some kernel-level dependencies especially Development Tools > >> (kernel-headers etc) such that they depend on running kernel version. > > > > I'd ask you first off, why is your kernel driver not merged upstream > > with the main kernel.org releases, to prevent any of these issues from > > ever happening? > > > Its a proprietary driver so its not meant to be the part of > mainline kernel. :( > > > Do you have a pointer to your driver somewhere so we can look at it to > > determine what is needed to be done to get it merged properly? > > > > I am sorry but I am not allowed to do that. Then I'm not allowed to help you, and asking for help from the community seems a bit rude to the community that you are relying on for your product. Take a look at this for details: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/technical-advisory-board-tab/kerneldriverstatement Good luck with the lawsuits, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
