From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261759AbVACV5e (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:57:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261772AbVACV5e (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:57:34 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:14489 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261759AbVACVuP (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:50:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:48:50 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Felipe Alfaro Solana cc: Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 In-Reply-To: <0F9DCB4E-5DD1-11D9-892B-000D9352858E@mac.com> Message-ID: References: <200501032059.j03KxOEB004666@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <0F9DCB4E-5DD1-11D9-892B-000D9352858E@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On 3 Jan 2005, at 21:59, Horst von Brand wrote: >> 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. That's ok. I don't have to buy that hardware. -- "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