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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
Cc: "Giedrius Statkevičius" <giedrius.statkevicius@gmail.com>,
	lidza.louina@gmail.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dgnc: Don't save boards in memory that have failed to initialize
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 17:38:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150315163842.GA18616@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550575ED.5020907@compro.net>

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 08:07:09AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> >>Greg, while I'm here, how can we get Digi firmware into the kernel firmware
> >>tree? The dgap card is useless without it and I suspect the dgnc is as well.
> >
> >Submit a patch to the linux-firmware git tree with the firmware in it.
> >
> 
> I don't know if the binary blobs are GPL compatable?

Look at the hundreds of different licenses in the linux-firmware tree,
they are all different for different reasons / companies.  Use whatever
license Digi uses for their firmware, it might already be part of the
tree.

hope this helps,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-15 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-09 16:29 Giedrius Statkevičius
2015-03-10  7:39 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-03-12 10:08 ` Greg KH
2015-03-12 10:20   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-03-12 16:14   ` Giedrius Statkevičius
2015-03-13 20:55     ` Mark Hounschell
2015-03-14  8:44       ` Greg KH
2015-03-15 12:07         ` Mark Hounschell
2015-03-15 16:38           ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-03-16 17:18           ` Mark Hounschell
2015-03-13 20:06   ` Giedrius Statkevičius

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