Dave Robillard wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:00 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 14. März 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.
When kernel hackers aren't allowed to hack the kernel, quality of it
obviously goes down.
Oh no! They hacked it. When did it happen? :-)
c.
Not "might" - does.
-DR-
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