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| @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. | |||
| 25 | submitting-patches | 25 | submitting-patches |
| 26 | coding-style | 26 | coding-style |
| 27 | email-clients | 27 | email-clients |
| 28 | kernel-driver-statement | ||
| 28 | 29 | ||
| 29 | Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: | 30 | Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: |
| 30 | 31 | ||
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| 1 | Kernel Driver Statement | ||
| 2 | ----------------------- | ||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules | ||
| 5 | ========================================== | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source | ||
| 9 | Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have | ||
| 10 | repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and | ||
| 11 | the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, | ||
| 12 | stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development | ||
| 13 | model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux | ||
| 14 | community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their | ||
| 15 | customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. | ||
| 16 | Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and | ||
| 17 | shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to | ||
| 18 | adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source | ||
| 19 | kernel code. | ||
| 20 | |||
| 21 | We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for | ||
| 22 | today, have in the past, or will in the future. | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | - Dave Airlie | ||
| 25 | - Nick Andrew | ||
| 26 | - Jens Axboe | ||
| 27 | - Ralf Baechle | ||
| 28 | - Felipe Balbi | ||
| 29 | - Ohad Ben-Cohen | ||
| 30 | - Muli Ben-Yehuda | ||
| 31 | - Jiri Benc | ||
| 32 | - Arnd Bergmann | ||
| 33 | - Thomas Bogendoerfer | ||
| 34 | - Vitaly Bordug | ||
| 35 | - James Bottomley | ||
| 36 | - Josh Boyer | ||
| 37 | - Neil Brown | ||
| 38 | - Mark Brown | ||
| 39 | - David Brownell | ||
| 40 | - Michael Buesch | ||
| 41 | - Franck Bui-Huu | ||
| 42 | - Adrian Bunk | ||
| 43 | - François Cami | ||
| 44 | - Ralph Campbell | ||
| 45 | - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino | ||
| 46 | - Mauro Carvalho Chehab | ||
| 47 | - Denis Cheng | ||
| 48 | - Jonathan Corbet | ||
| 49 | - Glauber Costa | ||
| 50 | - Alan Cox | ||
| 51 | - Magnus Damm | ||
| 52 | - Ahmed S. Darwish | ||
| 53 | - Robert P. J. Day | ||
| 54 | - Hans de Goede | ||
| 55 | - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | ||
| 56 | - Helge Deller | ||
| 57 | - Jean Delvare | ||
| 58 | - Mathieu Desnoyers | ||
| 59 | - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich | ||
| 60 | - Alexey Dobriyan | ||
| 61 | - Daniel Drake | ||
| 62 | - Alex Dubov | ||
| 63 | - Randy Dunlap | ||
| 64 | - Michael Ellerman | ||
| 65 | - Pekka Enberg | ||
| 66 | - Jan Engelhardt | ||
| 67 | - Mark Fasheh | ||
| 68 | - J. Bruce Fields | ||
| 69 | - Larry Finger | ||
| 70 | - Jeremy Fitzhardinge | ||
| 71 | - Mike Frysinger | ||
| 72 | - Kumar Gala | ||
| 73 | - Robin Getz | ||
| 74 | - Liam Girdwood | ||
| 75 | - Jan-Benedict Glaw | ||
| 76 | - Thomas Gleixner | ||
| 77 | - Brice Goglin | ||
| 78 | - Cyrill Gorcunov | ||
| 79 | - Andy Gospodarek | ||
| 80 | - Thomas Graf | ||
| 81 | - Krzysztof Halasa | ||
| 82 | - Harvey Harrison | ||
| 83 | - Stephen Hemminger | ||
| 84 | - Michael Hennerich | ||
| 85 | - Tejun Heo | ||
| 86 | - Benjamin Herrenschmidt | ||
| 87 | - Kristian Høgsberg | ||
| 88 | - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh | ||
| 89 | - Marcel Holtmann | ||
| 90 | - Mike Isely | ||
| 91 | - Takashi Iwai | ||
| 92 | - Olof Johansson | ||
| 93 | - Dave Jones | ||
| 94 | - Jesper Juhl | ||
| 95 | - Matthias Kaehlcke | ||
| 96 | - Kenji Kaneshige | ||
| 97 | - Jan Kara | ||
| 98 | - Jeremy Kerr | ||
| 99 | - Russell King | ||
| 100 | - Olaf Kirch | ||
| 101 | - Roel Kluin | ||
| 102 | - Hans-Jürgen Koch | ||
| 103 | - Auke Kok | ||
| 104 | - Peter Korsgaard | ||
| 105 | - Jiri Kosina | ||
| 106 | - Mariusz Kozlowski | ||
| 107 | - Greg Kroah-Hartman | ||
| 108 | - Michael Krufky | ||
| 109 | - Aneesh Kumar | ||
| 110 | - Clemens Ladisch | ||
| 111 | - Christoph Lameter | ||
| 112 | - Gunnar Larisch | ||
| 113 | - Anders Larsen | ||
| 114 | - Grant Likely | ||
| 115 | - John W. Linville | ||
| 116 | - Yinghai Lu | ||
| 117 | - Tony Luck | ||
| 118 | - Pavel Machek | ||
| 119 | - Matt Mackall | ||
| 120 | - Paul Mackerras | ||
| 121 | - Roland McGrath | ||
| 122 | - Patrick McHardy | ||
| 123 | - Kyle McMartin | ||
| 124 | - Paul Menage | ||
| 125 | - Thierry Merle | ||
| 126 | - Eric Miao | ||
| 127 | - Akinobu Mita | ||
| 128 | - Ingo Molnar | ||
| 129 | - James Morris | ||
| 130 | - Andrew Morton | ||
| 131 | - Paul Mundt | ||
| 132 | - Oleg Nesterov | ||
| 133 | - Luca Olivetti | ||
| 134 | - S.Çağlar Onur | ||
| 135 | - Pierre Ossman | ||
| 136 | - Keith Owens | ||
| 137 | - Venkatesh Pallipadi | ||
| 138 | - Nick Piggin | ||
| 139 | - Nicolas Pitre | ||
| 140 | - Evgeniy Polyakov | ||
| 141 | - Richard Purdie | ||
| 142 | - Mike Rapoport | ||
| 143 | - Sam Ravnborg | ||
| 144 | - Gerrit Renker | ||
| 145 | - Stefan Richter | ||
| 146 | - David Rientjes | ||
| 147 | - Luis R. Rodriguez | ||
| 148 | - Stefan Roese | ||
| 149 | - Francois Romieu | ||
| 150 | - Rami Rosen | ||
| 151 | - Stephen Rothwell | ||
| 152 | - Maciej W. Rozycki | ||
| 153 | - Mark Salyzyn | ||
| 154 | - Yoshinori Sato | ||
| 155 | - Deepak Saxena | ||
| 156 | - Holger Schurig | ||
| 157 | - Amit Shah | ||
| 158 | - Yoshihiro Shimoda | ||
| 159 | - Sergei Shtylyov | ||
| 160 | - Kay Sievers | ||
| 161 | - Sebastian Siewior | ||
| 162 | - Rik Snel | ||
| 163 | - Jes Sorensen | ||
| 164 | - Alexey Starikovskiy | ||
| 165 | - Alan Stern | ||
| 166 | - Timur Tabi | ||
| 167 | - Hirokazu Takata | ||
| 168 | - Eliezer Tamir | ||
| 169 | - Eugene Teo | ||
| 170 | - Doug Thompson | ||
| 171 | - FUJITA Tomonori | ||
| 172 | - Dmitry Torokhov | ||
| 173 | - Marcelo Tosatti | ||
| 174 | - Steven Toth | ||
| 175 | - Theodore Tso | ||
| 176 | - Matthias Urlichs | ||
| 177 | - Geert Uytterhoeven | ||
| 178 | - Arjan van de Ven | ||
| 179 | - Ivo van Doorn | ||
| 180 | - Rik van Riel | ||
| 181 | - Wim Van Sebroeck | ||
| 182 | - Hans Verkuil | ||
| 183 | - Horst H. von Brand | ||
| 184 | - Dmitri Vorobiev | ||
| 185 | - Anton Vorontsov | ||
| 186 | - Daniel Walker | ||
| 187 | - Johannes Weiner | ||
| 188 | - Harald Welte | ||
| 189 | - Matthew Wilcox | ||
| 190 | - Dan J. Williams | ||
| 191 | - Darrick J. Wong | ||
| 192 | - David Woodhouse | ||
| 193 | - Chris Wright | ||
| 194 | - Bryan Wu | ||
| 195 | - Rafael J. Wysocki | ||
| 196 | - Herbert Xu | ||
| 197 | - Vlad Yasevich | ||
| 198 | - Peter Zijlstra | ||
| 199 | - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | ||