From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@alacritech.com>
To: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:35:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD501AF.7B4D7645@alacritech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011022172742.B445@virtucon.warpcore.org> <E15vnuN-0003jW-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20011022203159.A20411@virtucon.warpcore.org> <20011022214324.A18888@alcove.wittsend.com>
Sounds like Linux is slowly crawling towards the WHQL perspective on
drivers from Microsoft. If they aren't qualified:
Microsoft == WHQL
Linux == ((!tainted) + EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() + ...)
... then they aren't supportable or acceptable for distribution by
anyone other than the creators.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone creates a LHQL process or
business to qualify binary drivers on supportable kernels from
distributions. I'd give it about a year.
--Matt
"Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
> Really? Sure as hell hasn't been my experience. Oh! That only
> works with Windows 95! Ok, now you can get the driver to support Windows
> 98 but it won't support Windows NT (got one RIGHT NOW like that). Oops,
> you upgraded to Windows 2000, can't support that with that driver, we
> don't have a driver for that yet. Windows XP, sorry, we don't have the
> Windows XP certified driver, yet, try back in a few months.
>
> Think that's a joke? I think it's pathetic and it is EXACTLY
> what I have experienced with multimedia cards, scanners, and printers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-23 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-22 18:45 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module jarausch
2001-10-22 18:51 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-22 18:51 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-22 19:35 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-22 19:46 ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-22 19:53 ` Daniel T. Chen
2001-10-22 19:53 ` 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module, or not? Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-10-22 20:24 ` 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module Alan Cox
2001-10-22 22:27 ` drevil
2001-10-22 22:43 ` Charles Cazabon
2001-10-22 22:46 ` Doug McNaught
2001-10-22 22:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23 1:31 ` drevil
2001-10-23 1:43 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-10-23 2:16 ` drevil
2001-10-23 4:44 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-10-23 5:06 ` Cort Dougan
2001-10-23 11:36 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-23 16:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23 5:08 ` drevil
2001-10-23 5:18 ` J Sloan
2001-10-23 5:59 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-10-23 7:21 ` Helge Hafting
2001-10-23 5:35 ` Matt D. Robinson [this message]
2001-10-23 16:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23 9:50 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-23 23:45 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-10-23 7:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23 14:18 ` drevil
2001-10-23 16:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-10-22 23:48 ` Jeff Golds
2001-10-22 23:53 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-23 9:05 ` Jesper Juhl
2001-10-23 18:07 ` Josh McKinney
2001-10-23 22:51 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-10-24 21:06 ` Reid Hekman
2001-10-25 0:19 ` J . A . Magallon
[not found] <fa.fm7f5dv.1cn8eg6@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.hbvlhav.v369au@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <023001c15cf4$4fd5ecc0$1a01a8c0@allyourbase>
2001-10-25 4:15 ` Reid Hekman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-23 12:37 Jesse Pollard
2001-10-23 9:52 PVotruba
2001-10-23 1:50 BH
2001-10-22 18:45 jarausch
2001-10-22 18:45 jarausch
2005-01-13 16:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-13 16:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-13 17:25 ` Zan Lynx
2005-01-13 17:38 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-10-22 18:45 jarausch
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