Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:12:05 -0700


On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:36:18PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 07:24:36AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, Linux is better in some ways. The main thing,
> > however, is device drivers. That's hardly innovation.
>
> Yeah, no innovation _ever_ happens in device drivers...

Whoops, sorry, didn't mean to get down on the driver folks. It's hard to
make a point without pissing someone off...

> One might consider such a wide range of different device support
> generally without access to hardware documentation a worthwile
> innovation, but I just need to keep remembering, "no one cares about
> device drivers, except when their devices don't work." :)

Hey, I think Linux's driver support is amazingly good, no disrespect was
intended. I'm not so sure that it a fertile ground for new ideas, drivers
are basically still trying to provide open/close/read/write/strategy/ioctl
semantics, aren't they? If they aren't, I'd ask if that is a good thing
but that's a different topic.

Sorry to rile you up, Greg, you're the last person I'd want to do that to.
My apologies.

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