Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964880AbVL3RR4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:17:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964884AbVL3RR4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:17:56 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:60620 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964880AbVL3RRz (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:17:55 -0500 Subject: Re: userspace breakage From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43B549FB.1050503@wolfmountaingroup.com> 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> <43B549FB.1050503@wolfmountaingroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://www.firmix.at/ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:17:04 +0100 Message-Id: <1135963024.3342.58.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1573 Lines: 40 On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 07:53 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > 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 .... > > > I support and write FS drivers for windows. The same driver works on > 2002, 2002, 2003, and XP. Longhorn have changed two IFS functions Which are basically 2 stable versions (2000 & XP). No 3.1, 95 and 98 support before? Apart from that there are other drivers as FS drivers too. > and that's it, and still loads the older fs drivers through a compat > interface. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/