From 468620a7a380298ad76fbfab022e3fdf7d6a1b8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miquel Raynal Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:36:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- .../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 384120d7a..dab2dc0ef 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 @@ \subsection{Linux Code and Device Drivers} \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