From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261764AbVACVtu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:49:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261503AbVACVtP (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:49:15 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.88]:50912 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261772AbVACVsD (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:48:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200501032059.j03KxOEB004666@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> References: <200501032059.j03KxOEB004666@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <0F9DCB4E-5DD1-11D9-892B-000D9352858E@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel , William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III From: Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:47:27 +0100 To: Horst von Brand X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3 Jan 2005, at 21:59, Horst von Brand wrote: > 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. Unfortunately, you can't force the entire hardware industry to open up their drivers.