Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module
Geert Uytterhoeven (geert@linux-m68k.org)
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:01:30 +0200 (MEST)
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 drevil@warpcore.org wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:50:59PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I really doubt Nvidia will open their driver code. I've heard them explain
> > some of the reasons they don't and in part they make complete sense.
>
> Microsoft deals with companies that won't always give them access to the drivers
> directly, but often they will tell users workarounds, or at least attempt to
> gather enough knowledge since they are tehnically the OS vendor to give to the
> driver provider to fix the problem. If you are the OS provider, and a change you
> make breaks user drivers/programs generally I think it's a polite gesture to at
> least attempt to find out what's going on and then pass that information on to
> the people who can properly handle it...
Of course the Linux kernel developers provide information: they even provide
the sources of their kernel.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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