Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:34:20 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > Whenever somebody says "accept the driver to help users", they are missing > the big picture. A binary driver SCREWS OVER users on other architectures. > It pretty much guarantees that those other architectures will never be > supported. (And that's totally ignoring the maintenance issues even on > regular x86).
Amen.
This has been a big problem in wireless area, where vendors love to provide BLOBs of code which inevitably work only on 32-bit x86.
Jeff
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