From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: M?ns Rullg?rd <mru@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 18:05:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030517160509.GA283@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xhe7xo1f6.fsf@zaphod.guide>
Hi!
> > > Linux compatible:
> > > Source code driver is available as a patch.
> >
> > In other words, if a patch is available for the 1.0.0 kernel, they
> > can claim "Linux compatible" ??? That's meaningless...replace with
> > something like...
Yep, I guess patch for 1.0.0 kernel would count as Linux compatible. I
even believe that patch for FreeBSD would count as Linux
compatible. As long as you can get source of the driver, it is easy.
Maybe better sticker would be
"includes driver sources".
[Long time ago I got double-speed cdrom, and on its driver disk, there
was C source of the driver. Porting it to linux was matter of two
days, IIRC. And it had korean comments ;-)].
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-17 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-13 15:12 What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-13 20:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-05-14 2:12 ` jw schultz
2003-05-14 7:57 ` Riley Williams
2003-05-14 17:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-05-17 16:05 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-05-18 1:39 ` jw schultz
2003-05-18 3:53 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-05-18 21:49 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-18 22:20 ` Neale Banks
2003-05-19 10:20 ` Helge Hafting
2003-05-14 14:11 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 15:29 ` Mike Dresser
2003-05-15 0:11 ` jw schultz
2003-05-14 14:09 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 14:44 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-14 15:58 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 16:14 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-14 19:40 ` David Schwartz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-13 13:16 Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-05-13 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-13 14:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-13 15:07 ` Lionel Bouton
2003-05-13 16:45 ` Jonathan Matthews
2003-05-13 13:46 ` Duncan Sands
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