From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267589AbUH0TiT (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:38:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267596AbUH0Thg (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:37:36 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:39306 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267589AbUH0Ted (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:34:33 -0400 Message-ID: <412F8CBC.4040003@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:34:20 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Craig Milo Rogers , Xavier Bestel , Christoph Hellwig , Kernel Mailing List , webcam@smcc.demon.nl Subject: Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) References: <20040826233244.GA1284@isi.edu> <20040827004757.A26095@infradead.org> <20040827094346.B29407@infradead.org> <1093628254.15313.14.camel@gonzales> <20040827185541.GC24018@isi.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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