On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:55:01AM +0000, Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo wrote: > >Patents have almost nothing to do with licenses, we have many things in > >the Linux kernel that are under a GPLv2 license that have patents issued > >for (and are actively enforced.) The GPL can, and does, work with the > >patent system, so if that's a reason that any company tries to give for > >not releasing kernel code, it's very misinformed. > > Well, I think the only the reason not to publish the code was because > it's a driver for a custom hardware with no interest outside our > department... Doesn't matter, we take drivers for anything, as long as someone is using the hardware. > > Anyway, off-topic but I figured I would try to clear that up. > > I was wondering that with the current limitation, there is no way to > call functions in a driver as the cdc-acm from other drivers as the > dummy I sent. Maybe our driver was designed the way is to avoid > latencies from context switching if the code were in userspace... It's > only a guess... You are dealing with USB speeds and latencies, kernel syscall issues are the least of your worries here. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
