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Subject: Re: Qlogic/FC firmware
To: riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:30:46 +0100 (BST)
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> I guess using an initrd on these 0.3% of machines shouldn't
> be too big a problem compared to violating the GPL and adding
> to kernel bloat for everybody else.

The license thing is a side issue. We have a sane relationship with Qlogic
so that can easily be dealt with. For 2.5 it definitely wants to be in
initrd-tng however