On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:24:16AM +0100, Stefan Rompf wrote: > Hi, > > Felix von Leitner wrote: > > > Did I mention that I'm really tired of you putting stones into ATI's > > way? You might believe you have a right to piss everyone off, after all > > people get what they paid for. Or maybe you think you are on a crusade > > to promote open source software. But if you keep alienating me (I'm a > > software developer) like this, I spend more time working around this > > bullshit and less time writing free software. In the end, everyone > > loses. I sincerely hope some day you people are done pissing in the > > pool and can create at least some semblance of semi-stable APIs. This > > house is never going to be safe for living until you stop digging around > > the foundation. > > I cannot agree more. Many developers and maintainers say they don't care > about > binary modules - but I do have the impression a few of them care a lot by > doing changes in a way that they break the current NVIDIA drivers on every > new kernel release.
Oh no, our secret is out! :) > As I read now, it seems to be the same way with ATI. Even GPL drivers > developed outside the kernel are disfigured over and over with #ifdefs > on KERNEL_VERSION. Then get those GPL drivers into the kernel tree, and that will not be needed at all. > While I fully understand that no developer wants to support binary modules, I > would appreciate a little less hostile behaviour. And btw., instable API > leads to an instable kernel because not everyone can follow the changes. Please read Documentation/stable_api_nonesense.txt for more info on exactly _why_ the kernel changes like this. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
