[bootlin/training-materials updates] master: kernel: modules: Getting free contributions is not directly related to the licence (468620a7)
Miquel Raynal
miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Wed Nov 10 11:09:13 CET 2021
Repository : https://github.com/bootlin/training-materials
On branch : master
Link : https://github.com/bootlin/training-materials/commit/468620a7a380298ad76fbfab022e3fdf7d6a1b8c
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commit 468620a7a380298ad76fbfab022e3fdf7d6a1b8c
Author: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
Date: Wed Nov 10 10:36:37 2021 +0100
kernel: modules: Getting free contributions is not directly related to the licence
You get free contributions when you mainline your drivers not because
you decide to use the GPL. This is the purpose of the next slide and
this advantage is already listed, so drop the sentence here.
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
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468620a7a380298ad76fbfab022e3fdf7d6a1b8c
slides/kernel-source-code-drivers/kernel-source-code-drivers.tex | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/slides/kernel-source-code-drivers/kernel-source-code-drivers.tex b/slides/kernel-source-code-drivers/kernel-source-code-drivers.tex
index 384120d7..dab2dc0e 100644
--- a/slides/kernel-source-code-drivers/kernel-source-code-drivers.tex
+++ b/slides/kernel-source-code-drivers/kernel-source-code-drivers.tex
@@ -164,9 +164,6 @@
\begin{itemize}
\item You don't have to write your driver from scratch. You can
reuse code from similar free software drivers.
- \item You could get free community contributions, support, code
- review and testing, though this generally only happens with code
- submitted for the mainline kernel.
\item Your drivers can be freely and easily shipped by others (for
example by Linux distributions or embedded Linux build systems).
\item Pre-compiled drivers work with only one kernel version and one
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