Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

Jeff Garzik
2004-08-27T19:38:19Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Whenever somebody says "accept the driver to help users", they are missing
> the big picture. A binary driver SCREWS OVER users on other architectures.
> It pretty much guarantees that those other architectures will never be
> supported. (And that's totally ignoring the maintenance issues even on
> regular x86).

Amen.

This has been a big problem in wireless area, where vendors love to
provide BLOBs of code which inevitably work only on 32-bit x86.

Jeff