On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:59:42PM -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > > variations, nobody has ever verified that the GPIO programming is safe > to use, and there is no way to prevent the potentially harmful code > from running on the wrong device. > > I, personally, do not want the responsibility of explaining to users > that their usb sticks may be damaged because of code that got merged I would be interested to know if someone _actually_ managed to break their hardware by using buggy drivers. IANAL but I think that consumer electronics hardware which can be damaged by software is broken by design. A vendor selling such hardware is stupid because people would return the broken hardware and get a replacement. I don't see how a vendor could proof that the device was not damaged by an obscure bug in the Windows driver to get around their responsibility to replace broken hardware within the warranty period. Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
