On 2/1/07, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, reengineering nvidia/ati DRM is rude to ati/nvidia, so was creating tigon3, so was rewriting from scratch the GPL drivers some ATA vendors published in the past, so was spurning the SATA/SAS stack adaptec offered...
It is rude, but they're writing proprietary modules, and *that* is rude, so screw 'em.
If the answer is no, then there is a big pile of device documentation (in the form of source code) waiting to be used.
Greg didn't say it was rude to write a new driver without consulting the author of an existing driver.. just that taking their code without asking them if they would prefer to put it in the tree themselves is a bit rude. Admittably there is a point where this whole politeness thing could get out of hand, but I think a good rule of thumb is to ask the author if they're ok with you doing X with their code, and if they say no, well, try to be gracious about it. Not that they *should* say no, this *is* free software after all. Trent - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/