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

[Dave Robillard]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:00 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2007 15:21 schrieb Lee Revell:
> > Binary drivers make the kernel impossible to debug, 
> 
> That's an exaggerated statement. I would accept "harder" though. ;)
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Not Linux' stability might suffer, but what you fear is that its reputation 
> could do.

When kernel hackers aren't allowed to hack the kernel, quality of it
obviously goes down.

Not "might" - does.

-DR-