Comment 213 for bug 1

Cimmo wrote:
> In my opinion this bug is also a Linux failure. This is because there
> are THOUSAND of different distributions, kernels, patched kernels,
> libraries ecc.
>
> I know this is an advantage for someone, but for companies that have
> to write drivers and have: - different version of libs in different
> distros - different directory for libs - different way to install
> something - different kernel
>
> how can we ask to produce a driver for all these stuff? We have to
> make ONE or TWO big distros and ask for support for those two, it's
> the only way that can save Linux and put up market share! Writing
> drivers, software and testing all this stuff in a so heterogeneous
> environment cost too much!

they'll publish the specs, the community will do the rest... there
usually is at least one person who knows how to write code *and* who
uses one particular piece of hardware. not that hard for a company to
publish information about their own hardware, is it? ;)

or better yet, release the source code of the drivers: we'll compile the
distro-specific binaries if necessary (when the source code of a driver
is released under the GPL, afaik it is included into a later release of
the kernel unless it's some poor coding).