On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 10:31:25PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > I don't think those are necessarily relevant examples, as far as device > pass-through goes. Vendors have many times reverted to proprietary ways, > and they still do, at least in the areas of the kernel I'm most active > in. I've seen first hand a large SoC vendor very close to opening a > significant part of their camera stack and changing their mind at the > last minute when they heard they could possibly merge their code through > a different subsystem with a pass-through blank cheque. If someone came with a fully open source framework for (say) some camera, with a passthrough kernel driver design, would you reject it soley because it is passthrough based and you are scared that something else will use it to do something not open source? I wouldn't agree with that position, I think denying users useful open source solutions out of fear is not what Linux should be doing. Jason
