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Hmm, let me see... They want our drivers, to "establish growth for the UNIX community" (i.e. for CSO, Solaris, etc). What's in for us? More work? AFAIK the driver availability for x86 unices, this would result in a flood of drivers for the commercial unices, and a few binary lodable modules for devices not affordable by the average Linux user. Or is there a major hole in the Linux driver availability chart I missed? Will this initiative really make hardware vendors think twice, and force them to release hardware specs and driver sources which they withheld before, just because the Linux community is cheaper in writing drivers for them? Having an UDI is a nice idea. But they (the commercials) should work our way, and not make us work their way. They want something from us, and have next to nothing in return. Yours, Christian Treczoks PS: No, there is no code from me in the *official* kernel, but this may change in the future. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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