Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Jeff Garzik wrote:


Great offer to folks for drivers, but it sends a mixed message. OSDL should offer to host a page somewhere to coordinate all of this.

:-)

Jeff

Roland Dreier wrote:

Just look at the in-tree drivers: there are tons of them that don't
work on big-endian platforms, or have 64-bit problems, or have no SMP
support.  And that doesn't even count drivers that are so bitrotted
they won't even build any more.


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.

I think it's quite disingenuous to imply that a few bad apples are a representative sample.

    Jeff


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