Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932213AbVL3PTJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:19:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932214AbVL3PTJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:19:09 -0500 Received: from c-67-177-35-222.hsd1.ut.comcast.net ([67.177.35.222]:58527 "EHLO ns1.utah-nac.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932213AbVL3PTI (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:19:08 -0500 Message-ID: <43B549FB.1050503@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:53:47 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernd Petrovitsch Cc: Linus Torvalds , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: userspace breakage References: <1135798495.2935.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051228212313.GA4388@elte.hu> <20051228214845.GA7859@elte.hu> <20051228201150.b6cfca14.akpm@osdl.org> <20051229073259.GA20177@elte.hu> <20051229202852.GE12056@redhat.com> <20051229224103.GF12056@redhat.com> <43B453CA.9090005@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43B46078.1080805@wolfmountaingroup.com> <1135941548.3342.22.camel@gimli.at.home> In-Reply-To: <1135941548.3342.22.camel@gimli.at.home> 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: 1181 Lines: 34 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: >On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:17 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >[...] > > >>Start caring. People spend lots of money supporting you, and what you >>are doing. How about taking some >>responsibility for that so they don't change their minds and move back >>to windows or pull their support because it's too >>costly or too much of a hassle to produce something stable from these >>releases. If you export functions from the kernel, >> >> > >The "program a driver once, runs on every windows in the future" is >actually a myth. Talk to developers with windows drivers .... >It is just that the companies absolutely don't have a choice if MSFT >changes something .... > > Bernd > > I support and write FS drivers for windows. The same driver works on 2002, 2002, 2003, and XP. Longhorn have changed two IFS functions and that's it, and still loads the older fs drivers through a compat interface. Jeff - 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/