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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-01-25 11:12:21 -0600 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-02-01 14:35:07 -0800 |
| commit | 782e70c6fc2290a0395850e8e02583b8b62264d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 455cb28ce894ba26d18011129c6bbdf59ed2879b /Documentation | |
| parent | 667d691ed7a70c9a9fde5b6bd663a5f38326e026 (diff) | |
| download | linux-782e70c6fc2290a0395850e8e02583b8b62264d8.tar.bz2 | |
USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed
there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the
GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision.
There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch
should cause no problems.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 181bff005167..a7d9d179131a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -156,22 +156,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> --------------------------- -What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL -When: February 2008 -Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c -Why: The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been - possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs - that operate as fast as the USB bus allows. Because of this, the USB - subsystem will not be allowing closed source kernel drivers to - register with it, after this grace period is over. If anyone needs - any help in converting their closed source drivers over to use the - userspace filesystems, please contact the - linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, and the developers - there will be glad to help you out. -Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> - ---------------------------- - What: vm_ops.nopage When: Soon, provided in-kernel callers have been converted Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around |