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Quote: Blindly Copying Code From An Exterior Driver

By Jeremy
Created Jan 23 2008 - 12:39

"Blindly copying code from an exterior driver is pointless, and no way at all to run an engineering process. If the driver is not going to get the review and attention necessary, bug fixes and feedback attended-to, then there's not much point in having this driver in the kernel at all. You will only lead yourself to frustration, if you set up a system where changes only flow one way. That's not how Linux development is done at all."

— Jeff Garzik, in a January 23rd, 2008 message [1] on the Linux Network Development mailing list.


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