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Great and all but "Linux drivers are not documentation"! All of FOSS is not Linux.
by konad 16y ago
Great and all but "Linux drivers are not documentation"!
All of FOSS is not Linux.
- sparky 16y agoI agree with you, but if I had to choose between a functional Linux driver and documentation, even as someone running BSD, I would take the Linux driver every time. A functional driver with source lends some confidence that nothing is missing. Documentation can be well-intentioned, but it is rarely so complete that you could write a major piece of software with nothing else. Of course, drivers+documentation would be even better :)
- samstokes 16y agoI'm not a driver author, but I'd hazard a guess that the source for a Linux driver is a lot easier to port to BSD than the binary.