Le Jeu 1 février 2007 10:03, Trent Waddington a écrit : > 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.
Not all of them. It seems it's kosher to rewrite a corp GPL driver but not a "community" one. And as others noted blocking merging is rude too. -- Nicolas Mailhot - 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/
