From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261496AbUBYSAN (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:00:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261499AbUBYSAN (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:00:13 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:11149 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261496AbUBYSAJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:00:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:05:32 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Sam Ravnborg cc: Timothy Miller , Rik van Riel , Matti Aarnio , Greg KH , Christoph Hellwig , "Woodruff, Robert J" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Hefty, Sean" , "Coffman, Jerrie L" , "Davis, Arlin R" , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com Subject: Re: PATCH - InfiniBand Access Layer (IBAL) In-Reply-To: <20040225185553.GA2474@mars.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: References: <403CCC77.6030405@techsource.com> <20040225185553.GA2474@mars.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > If we take the vendor persåective here. Then why should they make their > driver open source, when the middle layer is not part of the > main stream kernel? And why should we take the vendor perspective? We don't add drivers for stuff that doesn't exist, and is not even likely to be used much. That way, when problems occur (and they _will_ occur), the burden of the crap will be firmly on the shoulders of the people who should care. Linus