Quotes of the week

IMHO, all this was settled once upon a time in the past when binary-only modules were allowed to load into the kernel. (NB: At that time, it seemed to me that allowing this attitude from hardware manufacturers, especially in the GPU market, was satisfactory for Linus. Personnally, I am glad to see his posture has evolved.)

It does not mean all hope is lost. Maybe now, 15 years later, it's time to re-orient the strategy; either by:
1) changing the policy (boring PR stuff) and finding a technical way of preventing binary-only modules from loading (probably much more funny btw);
2) playing tricks with the API exported to these modules in order to increase significantly the burden of maintaining them behind closed doors.

Of course, any of these options may be even more provocative than the initial demonstration...

PS: I erroneously posted this comment at the root instead of as a reply in the good thread so this is a repost. Is it possible to delete the other one? (ID: 503553)