In some cases the binaries will cause the system to become unstable. I
learned that quickly from using a binary for Lucent some time back... It
became quite problematic and since then I refuse to deal with a tainted
kernel for any reason...
Just my opinion... that and a couple of bucks might buy a cup of
coffee... :-)
Have a good day and a better tomorrow!
vince
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 14. M?rz 2007 15:21 schrieb Lee Revell:
Binary drivers make the kernel impossible to debug,
That's an exaggerated statement. I would accept "harder" though. ;)
and if the kernel
devs created such a DBI, vendors would stop releasing open source
drivers and pretty soon Linux would be no more stable than Windows.
Why should Linux sacrifice stability just so vendors can keep their
hardware interfaces secret?
Not Linux' stability might suffer, but what you fear is that its reputation
could do.
CU
Christian
