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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, jeff@garzik.org,
	andi@firstfloor.org, tytso@mit.edu, hugh@veritas.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:10:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080704221015.54bdc8d2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080704.135150.250580915.davem@davemloft.net>

> It seems your employer is telling you to work on this in order to sort
> out some perceived legal issue.  And that's the only reason you're
> investing any effort into this.

To point out the blindingly obvious

1. - David has had *two* different employers while working on this project

2. - I think you could reasonably assume that if your employers legal
team had reached a specific conclusion that there was a compliance issue
they would have directed you to do something about it as well, not
operated a mysterious conspiracy (in conjunction one assumes with David's
current employer) to change it.

And it's worth remembering that the 'lunatic fringe' you seem to be
trying to associate David with don't care about the firmware changes
because their view is that you shouldn't even have drivers for such
hardware as it cannot be used in a free way (just as they argue not to
write java without free interpreters). [1]

Alan
[1] No I don't know where they get their free x86 engine from either ;)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-04 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 168+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-03  9:02 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-07-03 11:22 ` [BUILD-FAILURE] 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 - build failure at drivers/char/hvc_rtas.c Kamalesh Babulal
2008-07-03 11:59 ` [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-03 12:21   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 13:04     ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-03 13:11       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 13:33         ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 13:38           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 13:52             ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 17:30               ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-03 18:56                 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 19:31                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-03 19:49                     ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 20:52                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-03 21:03                   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 21:33                     ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 21:42                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-03 21:43                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 21:52                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-03 21:54                             ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-03 22:27                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-03 22:22                       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 22:25                         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-03 23:14                           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 23:02                             ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04  2:31                           ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-07-03 23:21                   ` David Miller, David Woodhouse
2008-07-04  0:18                     ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-04  1:09                       ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04  1:47                         ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-04  0:24                     ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04  1:28                       ` Grant Coady
2008-07-04  2:42                       ` david
2008-07-04 10:07                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 10:09                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-04 13:10                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 13:15                           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:27                             ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 13:39                               ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:27                                 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 13:48                                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 14:06                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 20:43                                   ` David Miller, Alan Cox
2008-07-04 21:04                                     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-06 20:17                                       ` david
2008-07-06 20:27                                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 20:51                                           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-06 20:52                                           ` david
2008-07-06 20:56                                             ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 21:03                                               ` david
2008-07-06 21:38                                               ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-06 22:10                                                 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 23:22                                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-05  6:05                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 17:52                                     ` Rick Jones
2008-07-04 13:46                                 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 14:07                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 14:38                                     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-06 23:40                                       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 15:53                                         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 17:24                                           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 18:13                                             ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 18:57                                               ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 18:30                                                 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 19:16                                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 18:45                                                     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 19:48                                                       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 20:48                                                   ` David Miller, Alan Cox
2008-07-07 20:42                                                     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 21:45                                                       ` David Miller, Alan Cox
2008-07-07 21:14                                                         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 21:58                                                           ` David Miller, Alan Cox
2008-07-08  6:36                                                             ` Alan Cox
2008-07-08  8:57                                                               ` David Miller, Alan Cox
2008-07-04 14:30                                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-04 14:37                                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 18:01                                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 20:28                                     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-05  4:35                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 20:39                                 ` David Miller, Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 14:10                               ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-04 14:23                                 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-04 14:39                                   ` Hannes Reinecke
2008-07-04 14:42                                     ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 21:34                                       ` Grant Coady
2008-07-04 22:08                                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 23:13                                       ` Olivier Galibert
2008-07-04 23:58                                         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-05  0:51                                           ` Trent Piepho
2008-07-05  3:52                                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-05  6:01                                               ` Bill Fink
2008-07-05 13:08                                                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-05  4:10                                           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-05  7:41                                         ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-05  8:50                                           ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 10:53                                           ` Olivier Galibert
2008-07-05 11:22                                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 12:02                                               ` Olivier Galibert
2008-07-05 12:09                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 12:16                                                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 12:23                                                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 12:42                                                       ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 13:57                                                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 14:44                                                     ` Olivier Galibert
2008-07-05 15:10                                                       ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05 17:13                                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-05 20:55                                                       ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 10:02                                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-06 10:55                                                           ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-06 11:50                                                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-06 12:22                                                               ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 14:44                                     ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-04 14:24                                 ` maximilian attems
2008-07-04 14:36                                   ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-05 10:26                                     ` maximilian attems
2008-07-04 14:31                                 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 20:37                               ` David Miller, David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 20:42                                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-04 20:43                                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 20:52                                     ` David Miller, David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 21:05                                       ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05  4:05                                       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-04 20:51                                   ` David Miller, Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-04 20:59                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-04 21:12                                       ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 21:10                                     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-07-04 20:53                                 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05  4:04                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:42                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-03 20:34         ` David Miller, Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 20:54           ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-09 20:43             ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-07-04 11:06       ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-04 13:17         ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 13:26           ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-04 13:28             ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 13:42             ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:45               ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-04 14:10                 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 14:13                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-05  6:14                     ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 13:28           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 16:10   ` Chuck Lever
2008-07-03 14:26 ` WARNING at acpi/.../utmisc.c:1043 [Was: 2.6.26-rc8-mm1] Jiri Slaby
2008-07-03 14:38   ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-03 15:24     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-07-03 23:35 ` 2.6.26-rc8-mm1--No e100 :( logs say missing formware Grant Coady
2008-07-04  0:40   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-03 23:42 ` 2.6.26-rc8-mm1--No e100 :( logs say missing firmware Grant Coady
2008-07-04  2:48 ` Question: split-lur // Re: 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-07-04  9:02 ` memcg: lru scan fix (Was: 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-07-04 19:16   ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-04 19:24     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-05  3:59       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-07-04  9:09 ` [PATCH] memcg: handle shmem's swap cache (Was 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-07-05  5:41   ` Balbir Singh
2008-07-05  6:11     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-07-05  6:49       ` Balbir Singh
2008-07-05  8:16       ` kamezawa.hiroyu
2008-07-04 22:49 ` 2.6.26-rc8-mm1: unable to mount nfs shares Mariusz Kozlowski
2008-07-04 23:07   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-08 14:42 ` [BUG] 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 - sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/pagemap.h:291 Kamalesh Babulal
2008-07-12  7:15   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-09 21:33 ` 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 - Missing AC97 power save Kconfig? Zan Lynx
2008-07-09 22:05   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-09 22:34     ` Zan Lynx
2008-07-05  5:49 [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" Jaswinder Singh
2008-07-05  6:37 Jaswinder Singh

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