linux-kernel - Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Message-ID: <45BFC7F2.7090209@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:34:26 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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.

Which of these actively maintained and supported drivers work on only 
one platform[1], and are excluded from enterprise distros?  Can we truly 
count them as "many", as you repeatedly claim?

	Jeff

[1] obviously excluding drivers for hardware where its only possible to 
occur on one platform, like SoC devices

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