Hi, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> Did I mention that I'm really tired of you putting stones into ATI's > way? You might believe you have a right to piss everyone off, after all > people get what they paid for. Or maybe you think you are on a crusade > to promote open source software. But if you keep alienating me (I'm a > software developer) like this, I spend more time working around this > bullshit and less time writing free software. In the end, everyone > loses. I sincerely hope some day you people are done pissing in the > pool and can create at least some semblance of semi-stable APIs. This > house is never going to be safe for living until you stop digging around > the foundation. I cannot agree more. Many developers and maintainers say they don't care about binary modules - but I do have the impression a few of them care a lot by doing changes in a way that they break the current NVIDIA drivers on every new kernel release. As I read now, it seems to be the same way with ATI. Even GPL drivers developed outside the kernel are disfigured over and over with #ifdefs on KERNEL_VERSION. While I fully understand that no developer wants to support binary modules, I would appreciate a little less hostile behaviour. And btw., instable API leads to an instable kernel because not everyone can follow the changes. Stefan - 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/
