On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:22 AM Adrien CLERC wrote: > Le 10/12/2020 à 08:05, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > > Cool narrative, but the reality is a bit more complex than that. > > Fibre Channel users need very specific kernels or else the hardware > > vendors will refuse support (and their vendor drivers will not compile). > > For example, my current employee use CentOS for videosurveillance. In a > lot of locations (100+), we still have analog cameras, that use V4L2 > grabbing cards with an out-of-tree kernel driver that I painfully > maintain myself (it is unclear if we only have the rights to modify its > source).
Both of these situations sound like things that should get solved by rewriting the vendor/O-O-T code and including it in mainline Linux/etc, is there any chance of that happening? Or alternatively, for significant future hardware acquisitions, require mainline support before purchase. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
