netdev - Re: confusing comment, explanation of @IFF

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Date:   Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:04:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:   "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:     Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Linux kernel netdev mailing list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: confusing comment, explanation of @IFF_RUNNING in if.h

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:

> "released upon production" means usually: Oh, we put that driver in
> a tar-ball on a CD that's shipped with the product and which will
> get no further visibility nor (security) maintenance.
>
> Robert, please tell your manager that creating a driver is no rocket
> science and also brings no "costumer differentiation" which needs to
> be covered under NDA.
>
> Posting drivers and bring it into mainline Linux heavily increases
> the quality due to the review process and all the people that are
> willing to help you to get better. At the end your driver gets
> long-term maintenance and other people can benefit from it - as your
> boss is getting benefit from using Linux right now.
>
> When something is "released upon production" it will not be in a
> quality that it could go into the kernel - and no one will have the
> time/money/ambition to spend effort on it then. You have just
> produced one of the numerous dead out-of-tree drivers. That would be
> just sad.

  i make these arguments on a regular basis with all of my clients
but, as a contractor, i have little influence. but i will continue to
make them.

rday

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