On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 10:44 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > Intel took over the maintenance of the ether pro 100 driver. What > happened? Tranceiver lock-ups when the card got busy. Adaptec took > over maintenance of the AIC7xxx drivers for Linux. What happened? > CRASH. And the proprietary NVidia drivers are widely known to crash > systems... even with kernels that they used to develop and test the > driver on. Makes you wonder if that's because they're used to systems where the users are used to them crashing and not complaining about it, because the users *mistakenly* think that's normal, and don't see any need to produce better code. e.g. Windows. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.