On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:07:04AM -0400, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > The risk of > trusting some random Linux developer's driver work is a reason why > some vendors don't want to support Linux. If I were a vendor, and I > endorsed a Linux driver written by someone without the appropriate > knowledge of the hardware, I could end up with large number of product > returns, and I would incur the cost of those losses. This is an interesting statement. Let me rephrase it: If I were a vendor selling ill-designed hardware which can be permanently damaged by buggy software, I'd make sure as hell that I get the information about how to avoid the damage out to every Open Source developer. Otherwise I would have to live with the risk of seeing an increased rate of product returns. BTW, there is a big difference of "after I plugged the device in under Linux it was dead" and "it runs hot under Linux, that might shorten the life span". I hope there is no hardware of the first kind. For the second kind you can fairly safely experiment until you solved the problem. Thanks, 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
