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Roland Dreier wrote: > I disagree -- Linux today gets drivers not just from volunteers > writing drivers from specs, but also from vendors writing drivers and > volunteers writing drivers via reverse engineering. And many of those > drivers don't work on every platform and aren't supported by > enterprise distros. And when the community loses interest, drivers > are left to bitrot. Which of these actively maintained and supported drivers work on only one platform[1], and are excluded from enterprise distros? Can we truly count them as "many", as you repeatedly claim? Jeff [1] obviously excluding drivers for hardware where its only possible to occur on one platform, like SoC devices - 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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