Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules | Date | Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:40:41 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> said: > Chris Friesen wrote:
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> > If you look at the big chip manufacturers (TI, Maxim, Analog Devices, > > etc.) they publish specs on everything. It would be nice if others did > > the same.
> One of the arguments that I have heard is fairly old and debatable as > well. This was the subject of a panel discussion at LWE in 2000 or > 2001, chaired by journalist Nicholas Petreley. The panel was composed > of vendors from (mostly) audio devices IIRC, but I'm not sure.
A friend of mine got to sign an NDA for access to the official specs to a device. Turned out to be some handwritten sheets, scribbled over...
Shame might have something to do too ;-) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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