Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:12:05 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] |
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:36:18PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 07:24:36AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > Don't get me wrong, Linux is better in some ways. The main thing, > > however, is device drivers. That's hardly innovation. > > Yeah, no innovation _ever_ happens in device drivers...
Whoops, sorry, didn't mean to get down on the driver folks. It's hard to make a point without pissing someone off...
> One might consider such a wide range of different device support > generally without access to hardware documentation a worthwile > innovation, but I just need to keep remembering, "no one cares about > device drivers, except when their devices don't work." :)
Hey, I think Linux's driver support is amazingly good, no disrespect was intended. I'm not so sure that it a fertile ground for new ideas, drivers are basically still trying to provide open/close/read/write/strategy/ioctl semantics, aren't they? If they aren't, I'd ask if that is a good thing but that's a different topic.
Sorry to rile you up, Greg, you're the last person I'd want to do that to. My apologies. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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