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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:23:57 -0800
From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
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To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
CC: "Bird, Tim" <Tim.Bird@am.sony.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
       arjan@infradead.org, andrew@walrond.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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Dave Airlie wrote:
>>To the larger argument about supporting binary drivers,
>>all Arjan manages to prove with his post is that,
>>if handled in the worst possible way, support for
>>binary drivers would be a disaster.  Who can disagree
>>with that?
>> 
> And do you think that given the opportunity, any company is going
> spend the extra money required to not do it in the worst possible
> way?? 

I meant "handled in the worst possible way by
the kernel developers".  It *is* possible to define
stable APIs and have them used successfully.

POSIX is not the greatest example, but it seems
to work OK.  I realize that drivers are more
tightly bound to the kernel than are libraries
or applications, but sheesh, this is not rocket
science.

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics
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