Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264271AbTKTF1T (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:27:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264273AbTKTF1T (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:27:19 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:10156 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264271AbTKTF1S (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:27:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:26:59 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Jeff Garzik Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, Linux kernel mailing list , Pontus Fuchs Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper Message-ID: <20031120052659.GF22764@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Jeff Garzik , jt@hpl.hp.com, Linux kernel mailing list , Pontus Fuchs References: <20031120031137.GA8465@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <3FBC3483.4060706@pobox.com> <20031120040034.GF19856@holomorphy.com> <3FBC5036.3020503@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FBC5036.3020503@pobox.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 23 William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> And what good would it be to have an entire driver subsystem populated >> by binary-only drivers? That's not part of Linux, that's "welcome to >> nvidia hell" for that subsystem too, and not just graphics cards. >> I say we should go the precise opposite direction and take a hard line >> stance against binary drivers, lest we find there are none left we even >> have source to and are bombarded with unfixable bugreports. On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:25:10AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Who brought binary drivers into this? And when I have ever advocated > binary drivers? > ndiswrapper has one use IMHO (which was pointed out me in this > thread)... to assist in reverse engineering. Hmm, maybe I've gotten the whole purpose of the thread wrong. =( -- wli - 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/