On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 10:25 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
if a user is rebuilding their libata subsystem and replacing the
modules, or replacing their alsa modules, or whatnot, they've already
voided the "i'd like to help you" implied contract in open source, so
they should just go run and support their own kernel.
Yay! So then one day we can look forward to everything being built in
and a user wanting to build a webcam driver having to build their own
kernel too. Then we'll really have won because that user - who can
follow some straightforward instructions on a website showing them how
to build a driver and install it - will give up and go use Ubuntu.
Just because we can build our own kernels with whatever patches does not
mean that all users who want to add a driver are capable of this.
Jon.