Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:23:32 +0200
From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: "Kilau, Scott" <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Ihalainen Nickolay <ihanic@dev.ehouse.ru>, admin@list.net.ru,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wen Xiong <wendyx@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Digi Neo 8: linux-2.6.12_r2  jsm driver
Message-ID: <20050412162332.GL4965@lug-owl.de>
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On Tue, 2005-04-12 10:30:19 -0500, Kilau, Scott <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>
wrote in message <335DD0B75189FB428E5C32680089FB9F122152@mtk-sms-mail01.dig=
i.com>:
> > There are people who just want the card supported.  There's no reason
> > to deny the driver to them.
>=20
> Oh, it *is* supported, using our GPL'ed DGNC driver available on our
> ftp/web site.
>=20
> This is not some argument of closed binaries versus open source
> binaries,
> As both the JSM and DGNC drivers are completely open source and GPL'ed.

So then please do *all* the work, not only the first half. Writing a
driver is a nice thing, but doesn't actually help anybody. Doing a
driver for eg. Linux means to *care* for it. That is, writing it is only
the very first step of a longer way. The next step is to supply patches
for review. Then you'll get some feedback and you're expected to work
the issues out. Then you can again submit patches -- and repeat this
until it's merged.

> This is about having the users of this card end up=20
> getting a worse experience by using the JSM driver.

Then please work on getting your driver included into Linus' and Andrews
kernel sources. For some time, both drivers may co-exist, but once one
driver is *really* superior over the other one and there are *no* issues
left that force people to use the worse driver, that one will die out at
some time.

But please be prepared to be in a competitive position. You've won't get
your driver included by just telling once about it; you'll need to work
towards that goal, and probably monitor the driver to be useable in the
future.

MfG, JBG

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