Re: starting with 2.7

[Horst von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@xxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> I would like to comment in that the issue is not exclusively targeted 
> to stability, but the ability to keep up with kernel development. For 
> example, it was pretty common for older versions of VMWare and NVidia 
> driver to break up whenever a new kernel version was released.

That is the price for closed-source drivers.

> I think it's a PITA for developers to rework some of the closed-source 
> code to adopt the new changes in the Linux kernel.

Open up the code. Most of the changes will then be done as a matter of
course by others.
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