Re: [ts-7000] Re: Greg Kroah-Hartman's response to SD-flash close source driver solution:

[Curtis Monroe <>]

On March 21, 2007 04:51 pm, Jesse Off wrote:
> --- In  Paulo Marques <> wrote:
> >
> > Breton M. Saunders wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, Linux needs the ability to support proprietary 
> drivers...
> > 
> > Couldn't disagree more. One of the great strengths of Linux comes 
> from 
> > the fact that its internal API may evolve without worrying about 
> > backward compatibility with drivers.
> 
> I consider this one of its greatest weaknessess.  Personally, I would 
> prefer stable driver API's and a little more respect for legacy.  

This is the document in the kernel tree that makes an argument against a 
stable kernel API: (the author is Greg Kroah-Hartman)

http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt


Here is a recent article stating Greg's views on some of these issues:

http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html

-Curtis.


> 
> //Jesse Off
> 
> 


 
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