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On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Tim Bird wrote: > To the larger argument about supporting binary drivers, > all Arjan manages to prove with his post is that, > if handled in the worst possible way, support for > binary drivers would be a disaster. Who can disagree > with that? From my point of view, supporting binary drivers IS the worst possible thing we could do. It is all too common that a user ends up with two binary drivers in his kernel, and both of the binary driver vendors tell the user "try without the other vendor's driver, otherwise we will not support you". In the mean time, the user and the distro are caught in-between two finger pointing binary driver vendors, with no possibility of fixing the problem the user has. 3rd party binary drivers are such a support nightmare that I wouldn't wish them on anyone. Especially not on end users... -- All Rights Reversed - 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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