Dear Greg KH, I have read your documents about kernel drivers and binary compatibility.
Well, I disagree with your position. I don't think that getting all the drivers into the kernel is good idea at all. This is because when you have 2 competing drivers, that are doing nearly the same thing, one of them will not be accepted. Additionally, my philosophy says it is OK to have non-GPL (and non-Freedom) drivers for Linux. Those cannot be inserted into mainline of course. Additionally, I believe it is not correct to force to developer to maintain his driver. Keeping up with Linux changing takes up driver developer's time. And kernel interfaces are changing too fast. I believe having stable kernel ABI can save many work hours of driver developer's, because they won't need to update their drivers every time when someone else broke something. I believe development can go without breaking _already working_ things. At least not every micro-release. Current situation is insane - I have a real-life example: Getting NVIDIA drivers, then updating the kernel breaks it again. I believe NVIDIA has the right to build proprietary drivers, if they so choose. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
