From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: James Clark <jimwclark@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver Model 2 Proposal - Linux Kernel Performance v Usability
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:29:14 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309041628380.14715-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309042114.45234.jimwclark@ntlworld.com>
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, James Clark wrote:
> I'm very surprised by the number of posts that have ranted about
> Open/Close source, GPL/taint issues etc. This is not about source code
> it is about making Linux usable by the masses.
How would "making it easier to include impossible to debug
device drivers" help towards your goal of making Linux more
usable ?
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-04 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-09-04 20:14 ` Driver Model 2 Proposal - Linux Kernel Performance v Usability James Clark
2003-09-04 20:27 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 21:16 ` James Clark
2003-09-04 21:50 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 22:10 ` insecure
2003-09-04 22:01 ` jdow
2003-09-04 20:29 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2003-09-04 21:12 ` James Clark
2003-09-04 21:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-04 21:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-04 22:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 21:29 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 21:51 ` James Clark
2003-09-04 22:06 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-04 22:10 ` Martin Mares
2003-09-04 22:23 ` Gustav Petersson
2003-09-05 17:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-05 18:31 ` James Clark
2003-09-05 18:59 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-05 19:12 ` Dale P. Smith
2003-09-05 19:45 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-09-05 19:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-05 20:01 ` James Clark
2003-09-05 20:08 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-05 21:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-05 23:19 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-09-10 20:50 ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-10 20:48 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-10 23:22 ` James Clark
2003-09-10 23:58 ` Greg KH
2003-09-12 20:51 ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-12 20:55 ` Tim Hockin
2003-09-15 11:39 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-05 20:53 Chad Kitching
2003-09-05 23:30 ` Mike Fedyk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-04 22:41 Chad Kitching
2003-09-03 17:53 James Clark
2003-09-03 17:49 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:23 ` Guillaume Morin
2003-09-04 4:10 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:35 ` Guillaume Morin
2003-09-03 19:30 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:18 ` Greg KH
2003-09-03 18:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-03 18:49 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-09-03 18:58 ` Gábor Lénárt
2003-09-03 20:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
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