Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

Dave Robillard wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:00 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
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>> Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2007 15:21 schrieb Lee Revell:
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>>> Binary drivers make the kernel impossible to debug,
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>> That's an exaggerated statement. I would accept "harder" though. ;)
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>>> 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.
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> When kernel hackers aren't allowed to hack the kernel, quality of it
> obviously goes down.
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Oh no! They hacked it. When did it happen? :-)

c.
> Not "might" - does.
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