---Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I recognise how important > good hardware support is to Linux's success, I don't >consider binary-only > support good support at all. I'd hate to be stuck in >Company X's position. > I'm sure you'd feel the same way if it was your >business on the line. It may not be possible, but I guess Linux needs some sort of standard for kernel-driver interfaces that would allow an older driver to work with newer kernels. To a limited degree, this is true with MS windows..Drivers supplied with win95 can work with win 98, some '3.1 drivers even work with '95 (with restrictions). But I see your point, if Kernel changes make existing drivers broken a binary only driver is not a good idea. OTOH due to NDA's a binary only driver might be the only way some companies COULD distribute a driver for Linux for their hardware (thank you Mr Gates!). _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
