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SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
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David Lang wrote:
| On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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[...]

| remember that according to some people 2.6.0 wasn't supposed to support
| anything compiled in, everythign was going to be a module, with much of
| the hardware detection removed from the kernel and put into code running
| on initrd or similar.

I'm told Linus refuses to do anything that would help establish and
support binary drivers, even if someone else does the work for him and
doesn't cause any bugs or interfere with the other systems inside the
kernel.

I'm not sure if this is true or not, but moving to modules-only sounds
like a good first step to "Hey, let's do binary drivers to get third
party support and become a real competing desktop OS" "Hey, let's do
binary drivers" "Hey, let's do binary drivers" "SHUT THE HELL UP"
"But hey man, binary drivers, we're already at all modules for drivers"
~ "Hey, binary drivers" "ALRIGHT FINE *grumble*"

Not that I don't fully support closed-source binary drivers as a way to
get hardware working until better, cleaner, open source alternatives
show up, mind you. . . :)

[...]

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| David Lang
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