In some cases the binaries will cause the system to become unstable. I
learned that quickly from using a binary for Lucent some time back... It
became quite problematic and since then I refuse to deal with a tainted
kernel for any reason...
Just my opinion... that and a couple of bucks might buy a cup of
coffee... :-)
Have a good day and a better tomorrow!
vince
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2007 15:21 schrieb Lee Revell:
>> Binary drivers make the kernel impossible to debug,
>
> That's an exaggerated statement. I would accept "harder" though. ;)
>
>> and if the kernel
>> devs created such a DBI, vendors would stop releasing open source
>> drivers and pretty soon Linux would be no more stable than Windows.
>> Why should Linux sacrifice stability just so vendors can keep their
>> hardware interfaces secret?
>
> Not Linux' stability might suffer, but what you fear is that its reputation
> could do.
>
> CU
> Christian
>
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