From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751237AbWCRPx0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:53:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751339AbWCRPx0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:53:26 -0500 Received: from [85.233.228.164] ([85.233.228.164]:61114 "EHLO botch.workgroup") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbWCRPx0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:53:26 -0500 Message-ID: <441C2CF6.1050607@overtag.dk> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:53:26 +0100 From: Benjamin Bach User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060309) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Idea: Automatic binary driver compiling system References: <441AF93C.6040407@overtag.dk> <1142620509.25258.53.camel@mindpipe> <441C213A.3000404@overtag.dk> <1142694655.2889.22.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1142694655.2889.22.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: > there are over a thousand open source drivers, and at most a handful > binary ones. Please go do your math. > You're doing the wrong comparison. How many drivers are missing or lacking in ability? And if you add to your handful of binary drivers those thousands that exist for xp... well, numbers do change. Also, most open source drivers aren't made by the vendors themselves. We're doing subjective math here. It doesn't change the fact that Linux would be better off with improved hardware support, right? / Benjamin