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Message-ID: <45BF8A42.4090107@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:11:14 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> CC: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Jeff Garzik wrote: Great offer to folks for drivers, but it sends a mixed message. OSDL should offer to host a page somewhere to coordinate all of this. :-) Jeff > Roland Dreier wrote: > >> Just look at the in-tree drivers: there are tons of them that don't >> work on big-endian platforms, or have 64-bit problems, or have no SMP >> support. And that doesn't even count drivers that are so bitrotted >> they won't even build any more. > > > The vast majority of these were submitted ages ago. Standards for > acceptance and maintenance have risen since the days of ISA drivers > and floppy tape drives. > > I think it's quite disingenuous to imply that a few bad apples are a > representative sample. > > Jeff > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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