Somebody in the thread at some point said:
Andy Green wrote:
> You never had a closed source driver with a bug in? There's nothing for
> you to do but make a bug report and wait.
And that's what I would do with open source as well. The difference is
that closed source OS's rarely change their driver interfaces, so it
would be extremely unusual for something that already works and I have
put into production to suddenly fail due to an update. In fedora, this
has been a regular occurrence.
Don't really agree with that, I seem to recall a ton of security apps
blew up with XP SP2. I notice that the argument forked there, suddenly
we're on the perennial LM stable ABI rant when what led to it was
options when faced with a buggy driver.
Good luck with the closed stuff.
-Andy