On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:10 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:58:02AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sad, 2006-02-25 at 08:41 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > the regualatory problems are not true. > > > > They are although the binary interpretation isn't AFAIK from law but > > from lawyers. The same is actually true in much of the EU. The actual > > requirement is that the transmitting device must be reasonably > > tamperproof. Some of the lawyers have decided that for a software radio > > tamperproof means "binary". > > Exactly. There's no strong requirement, it's just over-zealous corporate > lawyers. That's why we need to push Intel strongly here. i completely agree, besides, if this userspace binary blob just does something to /sys what is to prevent a user from doing that himself? what is to prevent someone to modify the driver slightly to smash a log entry every time the daemon does something?
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