>> If you are making a very specialist piece of equipment; not >>... > > >If the user has the source of the driver, he can port the driver or hire >someone to port the driver (this "obscure piece of hardware" might also >be an expensive piece of hardware).
I am happy that nvidia (to name one) provides at least the source to its glue... here's a real world example: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/52002e4f6d454e44/216311fff8f7c91b?rnum=1 could have been worse, but also could have been better, though. - 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/