[linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

[Lee Revell]

On 3/14/07, Gordon JC Pearce <wsynth at gjcp.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:21 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > Binary drivers make the kernel impossible to debug, and if the kernel
> > devs created such a DBI, vendors would stop releasing open source
> > drivers and pretty soon Linux would be no more stable than Windows.
> > Why should Linux sacrifice stability just so vendors can keep their
> > hardware interfaces secret?
>
> This is exactly what I'm talking about.  I *DON'T FUCKING CARE* what the
> manufacturers do or don't do with their hardware interfaces.  What I
> *do* care about is having X break every couple of days because some
> kernel update.  I have neither the time nor the inclination to try and
> work round other people's hangups.

I think you misread my technical statement as a political one.  I
don't care about politics or the GPL, I just want Linux to be the most
stable OS, and that can't happen if secret blobs of code are allowed
to scribble all over kernel memory.

Lee