Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module

Matt D. Robinson (yakker@alacritech.com)
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:35:44 -0700


Sounds like Linux is slowly crawling towards the WHQL perspective on
drivers from Microsoft. If they aren't qualified:

Microsoft == WHQL
Linux == ((!tainted) + EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() + ...)

... then they aren't supportable or acceptable for distribution by
anyone other than the creators.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone creates a LHQL process or
business to qualify binary drivers on supportable kernels from
distributions. I'd give it about a year.

--Matt

"Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
> Really? Sure as hell hasn't been my experience. Oh! That only
> works with Windows 95! Ok, now you can get the driver to support Windows
> 98 but it won't support Windows NT (got one RIGHT NOW like that). Oops,
> you upgraded to Windows 2000, can't support that with that driver, we
> don't have a driver for that yet. Windows XP, sorry, we don't have the
> Windows XP certified driver, yet, try back in a few months.
>
> Think that's a joke? I think it's pathetic and it is EXACTLY
> what I have experienced with multimedia cards, scanners, and printers.
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