Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755079AbYK1UX7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:23:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752538AbYK1UXt (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:23:49 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:52935 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752527AbYK1UXs (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:23:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:09:53 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Markus Rechberger , Aidan Thornton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Adding empia base driver Message-ID: <20081128200953.GA24406@kroah.com> References: <20081022220903.GA15278@kroah.com> <84144f020811270133r179828eat69b24c067c55447@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84144f020811270133r179828eat69b24c067c55447@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1446 Lines: 32 On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:33:03AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Markus Rechberger > wrote: > > I simply don't have the time for those games anymore, and those people here who have personal > > issues with me and/or my work don't pay my monthly bills, neither do they have any clue how that > > driver is used with some systems of certain customers. I constantly deliver full solutions, and not > > driver code only. Neither am I limited to Linux only. > > Again, it's not personal, it's the way we do things here. But you > should already know that by now so whatever. > > What puzzles me the most here is why isn't Empia simply providing > datasheets to other developers as well. I mean, even the GPU and > wireless vendors know how to play well with the community now, so > what's the problem? Being locked to just one developer who's unwilling > to cooperate doesn't sound like a winning strategy to me. > > Greg, is there any reason we don't have Markus' out-of-tree driver > listed here, btw: > > http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OutOfTreeDrivers It's a wiki, feel free to add it yourself :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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/