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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Grant Edwards |
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<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Contribute your drivers upstream. When the devs change an API, they'll |
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>> update your code for you. |
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> That sounds good, but in practice it doesn't work. |
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> 1) The kernel developers don't support any existing customers. Bugs |
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> are only fixed for customers who are willing to run the next |
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> kernel verison. I've got customers that are still running 2.4 |
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> kernels. 2.6.18 is still widely used. Will the kernel developers |
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> add new features, support for new hardware, or fix bugs for those |
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> customers. Not a chance. |
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Grant, |
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Check out the Long Term Stable family of kernels. It's a bit hard |
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right now due to the status of the kernel web site being |
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down/changing. However you can see here at Andi Kleen's blog that he's |
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interested in participation: |
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http://halobates.de/blog/p/38 |
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I know from watching the lkml list over the years that updates to long |
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term stable kernels come out periodically and do include fixes. I |
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don't know about new drivers, but reading Andi's blog it seems he's |
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potentially open to receiving driver updates from folks interested in |
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having the driver included. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Mark |
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