From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Anshuman Gholap" <anshu.pg@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Jan Knutar" <jk-lkml@sci.fi>
Subject: RE: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:00:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKMEBLKLAB.davids@webmaster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142291208.8407.46.camel@gimli.at.home>
> The consequence would be that $COMPANY writes a driver and blames the
> rest of the Linux world to change some internal undocumented interface
> months lateron just that they can commercially state to "support Linux"
> but without any real reason. In the non-evolutionary Windows world this
> holds until the next major release, but not on the high-tech front.
It should be possible to define a reasonable set of requirements that one
must meet in order to claim to "support Linux", just as Microsoft does for
Windows. One requirement should definitely be that driver source code be
available to everyone who purchases the hardware and that all (or at least
sufficient) interfaces to the hardware be well-documented.
DS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-14 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-08 9:35 Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-08 9:51 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-08 10:03 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-08 10:23 ` Martin Mares
2006-03-08 14:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-08 11:11 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-08 13:07 ` Diego Calleja
2006-03-09 15:17 ` Luke-Jr
2006-03-09 16:22 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-09 16:56 ` Michael Concannon
2006-03-09 9:21 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-10 8:03 ` Matthias Andree
2006-03-13 23:06 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-14 0:00 ` David Schwartz [this message]
2006-03-15 0:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-03-15 9:18 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-08 19:41 ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-03-08 9:57 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-03-08 10:27 ` Al Viro
2006-03-08 10:52 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-08 10:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-08 11:02 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-14 3:02 ` Jon Masters
[not found] ` <20060313223520.113bc6d0.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-03-14 3:35 ` sean
2006-03-08 11:40 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2006-03-08 12:00 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-09 15:32 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-08 14:59 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-08 21:54 ` Hannu Savolainen
2006-03-09 4:41 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 10:02 ` Dave Airlie
2006-03-09 10:42 ` Rudolf Randal
2006-03-09 11:22 ` DervishD
2006-03-09 12:13 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-03-09 18:34 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-03-10 8:19 ` DervishD
2006-03-09 22:04 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 11:41 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2006-03-09 22:12 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 15:13 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-09 22:11 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 23:30 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-10 1:04 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 9:26 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-09 15:09 ` Luke-Jr
2006-03-09 16:29 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-09 16:49 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-03-09 17:33 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-09 18:25 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-03-09 20:22 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-09 21:32 ` marty fouts
2006-03-11 0:54 ` Eduard Bloch
2006-03-11 1:01 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-11 9:16 ` DervishD
2006-03-11 9:52 ` Eduard Bloch
2006-03-11 11:43 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-11 12:07 ` DervishD
2006-03-12 17:09 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-13 2:19 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 16:16 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-13 21:57 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-14 13:30 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-12 3:57 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-13 5:16 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 5:25 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 8:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-13 21:57 ` David Schwartz
[not found] ` <20060314032447.6be9af0a.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-03-14 8:24 ` sean
2006-03-14 10:46 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-14 21:42 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-03-13 9:24 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-13 17:16 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-13 22:08 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-13 21:57 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 20:15 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-09 21:30 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-09 22:06 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-10 2:57 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-10 4:25 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 22:21 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-08 21:28 Tim Tassonis
2006-03-08 21:32 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-09 0:20 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-13 11:17 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-13 15:19 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-13 15:53 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-13 6:02 Matt Reuther
2006-03-13 9:08 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-13 22:00 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 22:32 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-14 0:02 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 19:00 Tim Tassonis
2006-03-13 19:15 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-13 19:25 ` Tim Tassonis
2006-03-13 19:31 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-13 19:46 ` Tim Tassonis
2006-03-13 23:06 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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