Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Andy Green wrote: > >> You never had a closed source driver with a bug in? There's nothing for >> you to do but make a bug report and wait. > > And that's what I would do with open source as well. The difference is > that closed source OS's rarely change their driver interfaces, so it > would be extremely unusual for something that already works and I have > put into production to suddenly fail due to an update. In fedora, this > has been a regular occurrence. Don't really agree with that, I seem to recall a ton of security apps blew up with XP SP2. I notice that the argument forked there, suddenly we're on the perennial LM stable ABI rant when what led to it was options when faced with a buggy driver. Good luck with the closed stuff. -Andy
