Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:01:30 +0200 (MEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module |
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 drevil@warpcore.org wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:50:59PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I really doubt Nvidia will open their driver code. I've heard them explain > > some of the reasons they don't and in part they make complete sense. > > Microsoft deals with companies that won't always give them access to the drivers > directly, but often they will tell users workarounds, or at least attempt to > gather enough knowledge since they are tehnically the OS vendor to give to the > driver provider to fix the problem. If you are the OS provider, and a change you > make breaks user drivers/programs generally I think it's a polite gesture to at > least attempt to find out what's going on and then pass that information on to > the people who can properly handle it...
Of course the Linux kernel developers provide information: they even provide the sources of their kernel.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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