From: Charles M. Hannum > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:08:13AM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: > > They don't have to write device drivers at all, they just > should write > > good documentation. > > What we really want is not just documentation, but support > from their engineers. The Linux community is starting to get > this in some places.
Fine, great, and the liklihood of vendors concerned about their bottom line contributing much time and energy to something that won't contribute *directly* to their bottom line... Good luck. We know that happens _all the time_. I'm sure in no time at all the Linux devs will be waist deep in vendor engineers. Why does it need to be spelled out? Of course bad documentation isn't what anyone wants. Duh. Like, what docs does a vendor engineering division give to the developers who write the drivers internally? They don't give them bad docs. They give them functional, useful docs. Does it need to be stated that any project wanting to compose useful support for the same hardware shouldn't get the same level of docs? I would sooner have access to good hardware docs than a vendor engineer paid by a closed-minded BoD who is there to attempt to silver-tongue the developer into just adopting some "OSS" driver crap (or steering them towards a blob.) DS
