[3474] in linux-net channel archive
Re: shaper or whatever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Speed Racer)
Mon Jun 24 23:13:45 1996
In-Reply-To: <199606242007.QAA17251@etinc.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 21:07:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Speed Racer <shagboy@thecia.net>
To: <dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
On 24-Jun-96 dennis@etinc.com wrote:
>>I can how you might think it's bad that there might be a free
>>implementation of what you had thought was a hard to implement,
>>proprietary feature of your software, but as far as the rest of us is
>>concerned, this is a feature, not a bug.... <grin>
>
>No...it has to do with the fact that every time you touch something you
>risk breaking it (if only accidentally). The more things that you touch the
>more problems that can occur. Once things work its nice to not have to
>touch them, thats all.
Ah. So, once you get your drivers working, I guess that will be it, huh?
Sure hope they do all I want them to do the first time out... and they'd
better do it perfectly too. They have to have all the features and they
have to have optimum performance.
If you are afraid of breaking it, maybe you shouldn't make it in the first
place. And if you're talking about kernel code - well, I thought your
binary modules didn't TOUCH that code. And it's not as if the interfaces
to the kernel that you need go changing "every day". Yes, changes need to
be made sometimes, but - with very few exceptions of note - I think the
kernel developers have done their best to minimize the effects of those.
If you don't feel like keeping up with the changes, then don't. I assume
your driver works fine under 1.2.13? Perfectly, of course, so that we
don't even have to make any changes. If you aren't willing to update
your products as users update their systems, I'm sure your competitors
will step up.
shag
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