Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 08:40:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver Message-ID: <1782675758.14654.1375882843424.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> In-Reply-To: <5201EC7C.4010209@freebsd.org> References: <1050637258.686.1375660230986.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> <601099152.721.1375661537866.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> <20130805202039.GA18861@devbox.vnode.local> <1174186801.993.1375743121722.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> <5201EC7C.4010209@freebsd.org>
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----- Original Message ----- > it'd be nice if we could get vmware to just support the drivers in tree.. > by which I mean, just submit patches.. why do they need to have it out > of tree? > I agree. But they are all unfriendly licensed. The FF had a discussion to get them relicensed to something more suitable, but that went no where over the past year. It is unfortunate this vendor supplied, out of tree driver, issue is still around. Linux should have taught companies how foolish this is.
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