From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261884AbVACVG4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:06:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261796AbVACVDX (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:03:23 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:47066 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261871AbVACVCB (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:02:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200501032059.j03KxOEB004666@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Felipe Alfaro Solana cc: William Lee Irwin III , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel , Maciej Soltysiak , Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 In-Reply-To: Message from Felipe Alfaro Solana of "Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:39:32 BST." <6D2C0E07-5DAE-11D9-9FD3-000D9352858E@mac.com> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:59:24 -0300 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Felipe Alfaro Solana said: [...] > I would like to comment in that the issue is not exclusively targeted > to stability, but the ability to keep up with kernel development. For > example, it was pretty common for older versions of VMWare and NVidia > driver to break up whenever a new kernel version was released. That is the price for closed-source drivers. > I think it's a PITA for developers to rework some of the closed-source > code to adopt the new changes in the Linux kernel. Open up the code. Most of the changes will then be done as a matter of course by others. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513