On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:46:38PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > I disagree -- Linux today gets drivers not just from volunteers > writing drivers from specs, but also from vendors writing drivers and > volunteers writing drivers via reverse engineering. And many of those > drivers don't work on every platform and aren't supported by > enterprise distros. And when the community loses interest, drivers > are left to bitrot.
I would much rather see a driver bit rot due to lack of interest than see hardware go to the scrap heap because the vendor stoped caring about it and you are SOL. Happens every time a new windows version comes out. lots of working hardware suddenly becomes useless. At least on linux I can keep using it if I want to until I decide not to try and maintain the driver (if no one else is doing it). A driver with bitrot is a lot better than no driver at all. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
