On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:05 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> > I would also add to the contract a requirement to offer Linux support >> > for, say, the next five years. >> >> Not sure if we should call it a contract unless its understood its an >> informal contract with the community. > > There has to be some form of contract. The logo is copyrighted, > obviously, so there has to be a contract for you to be allowed to print > it on a box. Heh, Whatever makes the copyright holders happy :) I suspect the copyright holder are after the community's best interests anyway. >> Also I don't think we should be >> specific about a time frame for support -- its difficult enough to get >> the driver upstream, not that its not possible I just think it we >> should strive to at least get vendors to properly support Linux by >> submitting their drivers for upstream into Linus' tree. Support tends >> to come naturally after that :) > > Because sometimes there are users who care. I think though that the > vendor should participate in future development by testing and fixing > their driver, for at least a period of time. Five years may be too much, > given the current chip livetime maybe one or two would make sense, > kernel releases are only roughly every three months. > > Mind you, I wasn't talking about user support, but rather development > support, kinda like a SUPPORTED tag in the MAINTAINERS file. This seems reasonable. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
