Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751186AbWCIQg6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:36:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932664AbWCIQg6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:36:58 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:44258 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751321AbWCIQg5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:36:57 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] Open letter to vendors? draft From: Alan Cox To: Rudolf Randal Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:42:32 +0000 Message-Id: <1141922552.16745.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 629 Lines: 15 On Iau, 2006-03-09 at 14:17 +0100, Rudolf Randal wrote: > This is a rough draft of an idea of an open letter to vendors - trying > to create a dialog for creating open source drivers for their > hardware. It never does any harm asking and poking people politely. However what are you going to do if they reply "tell me more". It goes beyond an open letter - you need a process too. - 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/