Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932461AbWCNDCN (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:02:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932532AbWCNDCN (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:02:13 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.199]:25362 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932461AbWCNDCM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:02:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=F4lJYDSTTI3ojIWNycnv36uvIXDikH2A+jNHi26HIHlUwMxEhvdWb8eJUyWU74vCdCuK/Tn7HqoQ4QhKLHuApg3We8skzbT+tsNe3XBYh1bFWJj15MREFuipvAf2Jz9lxpOltGPFXaTuzt3cfbd+HjoVi2XSB1BIeqYAEcYkQj0= Message-ID: <35fb2e590603131902i66afe836y6653a20405bc5818@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:02:12 +0000 From: "Jon Masters" Reply-To: jonathan@jonmasters.org To: "Anshuman Gholap" Subject: Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060308102731.GO27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <1141815315.10151.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 22 On 3/8/06, Anshuman Gholap wrote: > I was speaking of all this, cause i am tired to everyone peskering me, > arguing with me how linux cannot work with my "insert new hardware" , > I have to google stuff out and hand-hold them to get it working, this > was cool to do some years ago, when i didnt bother to work full time > and felt good helping others, now that feel good factor has ran out, > and i get more annoyed than anything else. I dont think i can explain > why did i post this. maybe someone somewhere will get it. It strikes me that this thread isn't really about binary-only drivers and that whole ugly discussion. What it's really about is getting third party drivers to work with Linux more easily. That conversation does involve the "out of tree vs. upstream" question, but mention of binary-only drivers actually only serves to cloud the real issue here. Jon. - 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/