From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A2E0483 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:38:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D84221DF for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DEA20C11 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:38:05 -0700 From: Greg KH To: josh@joshtriplett.org Message-ID: <20150728213805.GA8786@kroah.com> References: <20436.1438090619@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20150728183610.GB5307@cloud> <1438109061.5441.202.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20150728185428.GD5307@cloud> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150728185428.GD5307@cloud> Cc: James Bottomley , mcgrof@gmail.com, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, jkkm@jkkm.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Firmware signing List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:54:28AM -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > So in that case, what's the advantage of separating the firmware from > > the driver? If we can't update it without updating the driver, we could > > just build it in and save a huge amount of hassle. > > Licensing, which is a large part of why we have request_firmware to > begin with. Let's not make distribution kernel maintainers' lives more > difficult than they already are. Not true at all, please talk with some lawyers about this. Or, to be clear, the lawyers I have discussed this with have no issues at all with it. Yours might differ. Insert joke about 2 lawyers and 3 opinions and all that... thanks, greg k-h