On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:22:29PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:18:03PM +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: > > Thank you for your answer. > > Ok, even if the hardware vendor decides to open the driver : > > Will it be included ? > > if it's of good enough quality then yes > > > In every kernel ? > > In every distribution ? > > yes > > > For only a few (about several thousand) users ? > > we have drivers for fewer users ;) > > > Why is there no really *fix* api *and* abi for all kernels > > 2.6.x ? > > because that stiffles innovation for too much. But libusb is stable, is it not? And LGPL. Meaning that it's possible to develop a closed driver for the specified USB device. Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.