Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261249AbVAGFs4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:48:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261256AbVAGFs4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:48:56 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:39148 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261249AbVAGFsw (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:48:52 -0500 Message-ID: <41DE22BC.3080500@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:48:44 -0500 From: John Richard Moser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041211) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Lang CC: Adrian Bunk , Arjan van de Ven , Rik van Riel , Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 References: <1697129508.20050102210332@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <20050102203615.GL29332@holomorphy.com> <20050102212427.GG2818@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050103153438.GF2980@stusta.de> <1104767943.4192.17.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050104174712.GI3097@stusta.de> <20050106193510.GL3096@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1796 Lines: 55 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Lang wrote: | On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: | [...] | remember that according to some people 2.6.0 wasn't supposed to support | anything compiled in, everythign was going to be a module, with much of | the hardware detection removed from the kernel and put into code running | on initrd or similar. I'm told Linus refuses to do anything that would help establish and support binary drivers, even if someone else does the work for him and doesn't cause any bugs or interfere with the other systems inside the kernel. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but moving to modules-only sounds like a good first step to "Hey, let's do binary drivers to get third party support and become a real competing desktop OS" "Hey, let's do binary drivers" "Hey, let's do binary drivers" "SHUT THE HELL UP" "But hey man, binary drivers, we're already at all modules for drivers" ~ "Hey, binary drivers" "ALRIGHT FINE *grumble*" Not that I don't fully support closed-source binary drivers as a way to get hardware working until better, cleaner, open source alternatives show up, mind you. . . :) [...] | | David Lang | - -- All content of all messages exchanged herein are left in the Public Domain, unless otherwise explicitly stated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3iK7hDd4aOud5P8RAibaAJ97SIihv6jFh1Pxs8X/KmmgtEEJfgCaAqby DszwpF70zEwKh15Sbj+YzqI= =j75D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/