From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@isi.edu>,
Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
webcam@smcc.demon.nl
Subject: Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:34:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <412F8CBC.4040003@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408271157540.14196@ppc970.osdl.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 23:32 Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-26 23:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 8:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 9:48 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 17:37 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 18:55 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 19:34 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-08-27 21:42 ` Nemosoft Unv.
2004-08-27 22:49 ` Marek Habersack
2004-08-27 23:40 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-08-28 17:42 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-27 23:04 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 21:59 ` non-i386 architectures (Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)) Daniel Egger
2004-08-27 19:06 ` Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-27 19:12 ` Alex Belits
2004-08-27 21:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 21:42 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 22:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-27 21:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 22:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-28 0:45 ` Paul Jakma
2004-08-28 0:53 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-28 10:29 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2004-08-29 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-28 9:26 ` chris
2004-08-29 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 14:36 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-29 18:57 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 19:40 ` Greg KH
2004-08-30 9:35 ` Craig Milo Rogers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-27 10:14 Koos Vriezen
2004-08-27 11:03 ` Marcus Metzler
2004-08-28 2:16 lkml-mail
2004-08-28 5:30 ` Greg KH
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