On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 06:08:40PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:39:20AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > If your company had hardware going to production, you'd want it supported > > in mainline too, I suspect. > > And if companies told their hardware partners that they will drop use > of their hardware in future products unless they get their !@#@S > drivers upstream, I'd bet they'd change their engineering priorities > so they would work on it, instead of foisting this work on their > customers. > I would love to be in that position. However, the decision to choose a specific chip is not always coordinated with those who have to provide the software to run on those chips.
> I've seen this work in enterprise computing, where the RFP had > requirements for upstream drivers (i.e., if you want your 10gig > ethernet NIC to be used in HP or IBM's servers, get the darned thing > upstream!). The trick is making it clear that selection of components > depends not just on an OSS driver, but an OSS driver which has been > accepted upstream (which also helps from a quality-of-code > requirement). > > I've been waiting for this to start happening in the consumer > electronics/embedded world, but it's been slow coming, > unfortunately.... > The same applies to vendors of non-consumer network devices, unfortunately. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
