Re: starting with 2.7

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 3 Jan 2005, at 21:59, Horst von Brand wrote:

> Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@xxxxxxx> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > I would like to comment in that the issue is not exclusively targeted
> > to stability, but the ability to keep up with kernel development. For
> > example, it was pretty common for older versions of VMWare and NVidia
> > driver to break up whenever a new kernel version was released.
>
> That is the price for closed-source drivers.
>
> > I think it's a PITA for developers to rework some of the closed-source
> > code to adopt the new changes in the Linux kernel.
>
> Open up the code. Most of the changes will then be done as a matter of
> course by others.

Unfortunately, you can't force the entire hardware industry to open up 
their drivers.

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