From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] u_char.c and mtp.c patches Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:44:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20100419224451.GE1800@kroah.com> References: <1268123742-22968-1-git-send-email-felipe.balbi@nokia.com> <20100419162611.GA15131@nokia.com> <20100419200727.GC27643@nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100419200727.GC27643-xNZwKgViW5gAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-usb-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Felipe Balbi Cc: ext Linus Walleij , Linux USB Mailing List , "Krogerus Heikki (EXT-Teleca/Helsinki)" , "Quadros Roger (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" , "Kaliuta Yauheni (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" , "Mandy Arnaud.2 (EXT-Teleca/Helsinki)" , David Brownell , linux-embedded , Tim Bird , "libmtp-discuss-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org" On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:07:27PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:23:46PM +0200, ext Linus Walleij wrote: > >...so I read you like it's not going to be supported with the proposed > >solution? > > > >I think that if you want you gadget to work with older Windowses, > >you simply have to support this. > > if you're willing to pay the Royalty fees, let me know :-p > > seriously, we just can't support it. AFAICT, M$ has patents over the > OS Descriptor thingy (I could wrong though) and we don't want to > give linux foundation a law suit, do we ? :-) If you know the patent numbers, please send them to me. There are very simple methods of routing around patents. Also, the USB-IF is very interested in patents that cover USB related things, as they could possibly violate the USB-IF agreement that companies are forced to sign to join it. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html