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Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla)Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla)Posted Nov 7, 2008 21:38 UTC (Fri) by juhl (guest, #33245)Parent article: Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla)
That's great news. Now if they would work to get it into the standard kernel.org kernel it would be really great :-)
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Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla) Posted Nov 7, 2008 22:18 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
I imagine that's on the list of Things To Do. It's just not going to happen right away, there's code review and pushing it upstream to do first.
Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla) Posted Nov 8, 2008 1:23 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
Welcome to the community, Creative! We know you've put a lot of hard work into getting this code ready. Now, if you'll just apply this TAINT_CRAP flag to your code we can get started with your first review...
Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla) Posted Nov 9, 2008 14:57 UTC (Sun) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
Well, TAINT_CRAP mostly flags things to developers (kernel or distro). Remember that Windows for a long time has reacted to crap (uncertified) drivers with big scary warning dialogs, and IHVs reacted by updating their installation instructions to say that users should just click past the scary warnings or worse, they modified the installer to move the mouse and click through on its own. So Microsoft realised that a stick wasn't working and went for the nuclear option - in x86-64 Vista AFAIU users can't click past, they get a dialog saying the driver won't work, and that's it unless they are willing to modify the OS and reboot into a clearly labelled (and unsupported) "test mode" to use the hardware.
So we're not actually kicking Creative that hard for their crap driver compared to other OS vendors. A TAINT_CRAP flag almost certainly won't keep the driver out of Ubuntu or Fedora, and even in RHEL I can imagine a future "kernel-drivers-unsupported" or something package with these drivers in it.
Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla) Posted Nov 10, 2008 0:52 UTC (Mon) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]
I think sbergman27's point was to encourage them Creative to submit their drivers for inclusion in the kernel. This either requires them to fix all bugs before hand, or mark it with TAINT_CRAP and fix things post-merge.
So it isn't so much an insult as encouragement to merge early.
Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla) Posted Nov 10, 2008 16:46 UTC (Mon) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link]
Maybe they will interpret it as a compliment, as in "T'AINT CRAP".
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