To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <ada8xfks90x.fsf@cisco.com>
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:02:56 -0800
In-Reply-To: <45BF8C57.1020500@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:20:07 -0500")
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 > The vast majority of these were submitted ages ago.  Standards for
 > acceptance and maintenance have risen since the days of ISA drivers
 > and floppy tape drives.

What are our standards for maintenance?  How can we tell in advance if
something is going to be maintained (cf. drivers/net/chelsio)?

I don't think you can seriously argue that just posting documentation
is going to guarantee that a device is going to get a high-quality
driver that runs on all architectures and that enterprise distros will
support.  And I don't think it's a good strategy to try convince
vendors to open docs by using happy talk about an idealized fantasy world.

 - R.
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