| Kernel Driver Statement | |
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| Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules | |
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| We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source | |
| Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have | |
| repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and | |
| the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, | |
| stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development | |
| model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux | |
| community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their | |
| customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. | |
| Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and | |
| shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to | |
| adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source | |
| kernel code. | |
| We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for | |
| today, have in the past, or will in the future. | |
| - Dave Airlie | |
| - Nick Andrew | |
| - Jens Axboe | |
| - Ralf Baechle | |
| - Felipe Balbi | |
| - Ohad Ben-Cohen | |
| - Muli Ben-Yehuda | |
| - Jiri Benc | |
| - Arnd Bergmann | |
| - Thomas Bogendoerfer | |
| - Vitaly Bordug | |
| - James Bottomley | |
| - Josh Boyer | |
| - Neil Brown | |
| - Mark Brown | |
| - David Brownell | |
| - Michael Buesch | |
| - Franck Bui-Huu | |
| - Adrian Bunk | |
| - François Cami | |
| - Ralph Campbell | |
| - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino | |
| - Mauro Carvalho Chehab | |
| - Denis Cheng | |
| - Jonathan Corbet | |
| - Glauber Costa | |
| - Alan Cox | |
| - Magnus Damm | |
| - Ahmed S. Darwish | |
| - Robert P. J. Day | |
| - Hans de Goede | |
| - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | |
| - Helge Deller | |
| - Jean Delvare | |
| - Mathieu Desnoyers | |
| - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich | |
| - Alexey Dobriyan | |
| - Daniel Drake | |
| - Alex Dubov | |
| - Randy Dunlap | |
| - Michael Ellerman | |
| - Pekka Enberg | |
| - Jan Engelhardt | |
| - Mark Fasheh | |
| - J. Bruce Fields | |
| - Larry Finger | |
| - Jeremy Fitzhardinge | |
| - Mike Frysinger | |
| - Kumar Gala | |
| - Robin Getz | |
| - Liam Girdwood | |
| - Jan-Benedict Glaw | |
| - Thomas Gleixner | |
| - Brice Goglin | |
| - Cyrill Gorcunov | |
| - Andy Gospodarek | |
| - Thomas Graf | |
| - Krzysztof Halasa | |
| - Harvey Harrison | |
| - Stephen Hemminger | |
| - Michael Hennerich | |
| - Tejun Heo | |
| - Benjamin Herrenschmidt | |
| - Kristian Høgsberg | |
| - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh | |
| - Marcel Holtmann | |
| - Mike Isely | |
| - Takashi Iwai | |
| - Olof Johansson | |
| - Dave Jones | |
| - Jesper Juhl | |
| - Matthias Kaehlcke | |
| - Kenji Kaneshige | |
| - Jan Kara | |
| - Jeremy Kerr | |
| - Russell King | |
| - Olaf Kirch | |
| - Roel Kluin | |
| - Hans-Jürgen Koch | |
| - Auke Kok | |
| - Peter Korsgaard | |
| - Jiri Kosina | |
| - Aaro Koskinen | |
| - Mariusz Kozlowski | |
| - Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
| - Michael Krufky | |
| - Aneesh Kumar | |
| - Clemens Ladisch | |
| - Christoph Lameter | |
| - Gunnar Larisch | |
| - Anders Larsen | |
| - Grant Likely | |
| - John W. Linville | |
| - Yinghai Lu | |
| - Tony Luck | |
| - Pavel Machek | |
| - Matt Mackall | |
| - Paul Mackerras | |
| - Roland McGrath | |
| - Patrick McHardy | |
| - Kyle McMartin | |
| - Paul Menage | |
| - Thierry Merle | |
| - Eric Miao | |
| - Akinobu Mita | |
| - Ingo Molnar | |
| - James Morris | |
| - Andrew Morton | |
| - Paul Mundt | |
| - Oleg Nesterov | |
| - Luca Olivetti | |
| - S.Çağlar Onur | |
| - Pierre Ossman | |
| - Keith Owens | |
| - Venkatesh Pallipadi | |
| - Nick Piggin | |
| - Nicolas Pitre | |
| - Evgeniy Polyakov | |
| - Richard Purdie | |
| - Mike Rapoport | |
| - Sam Ravnborg | |
| - Gerrit Renker | |
| - Stefan Richter | |
| - David Rientjes | |
| - Luis R. Rodriguez | |
| - Stefan Roese | |
| - Francois Romieu | |
| - Rami Rosen | |
| - Stephen Rothwell | |
| - Maciej W. Rozycki | |
| - Mark Salyzyn | |
| - Yoshinori Sato | |
| - Deepak Saxena | |
| - Holger Schurig | |
| - Amit Shah | |
| - Yoshihiro Shimoda | |
| - Sergei Shtylyov | |
| - Kay Sievers | |
| - Sebastian Siewior | |
| - Rik Snel | |
| - Jes Sorensen | |
| - Alexey Starikovskiy | |
| - Alan Stern | |
| - Timur Tabi | |
| - Hirokazu Takata | |
| - Eliezer Tamir | |
| - Eugene Teo | |
| - Doug Thompson | |
| - FUJITA Tomonori | |
| - Dmitry Torokhov | |
| - Marcelo Tosatti | |
| - Steven Toth | |
| - Theodore Tso | |
| - Matthias Urlichs | |
| - Geert Uytterhoeven | |
| - Arjan van de Ven | |
| - Ivo van Doorn | |
| - Rik van Riel | |
| - Wim Van Sebroeck | |
| - Hans Verkuil | |
| - Horst H. von Brand | |
| - Dmitri Vorobiev | |
| - Anton Vorontsov | |
| - Daniel Walker | |
| - Johannes Weiner | |
| - Harald Welte | |
| - Matthew Wilcox | |
| - Dan J. Williams | |
| - Darrick J. Wong | |
| - David Woodhouse | |
| - Chris Wright | |
| - Bryan Wu | |
| - Rafael J. Wysocki | |
| - Herbert Xu | |
| - Vlad Yasevich | |
| - Peter Zijlstra | |
| - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz |