Re: confusing comment, explanation of @IFF_RUNNING in if.h

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:

"released upon production" means usually: Oh, we put that driver in
a tar-ball on a CD that's shipped with the product and which will
get no further visibility nor (security) maintenance.

Robert, please tell your manager that creating a driver is no rocket
science and also brings no "costumer differentiation" which needs to
be covered under NDA.

Posting drivers and bring it into mainline Linux heavily increases
the quality due to the review process and all the people that are
willing to help you to get better. At the end your driver gets
long-term maintenance and other people can benefit from it - as your
boss is getting benefit from using Linux right now.

When something is "released upon production" it will not be in a
quality that it could go into the kernel - and no one will have the
time/money/ambition to spend effort on it then. You have just
produced one of the numerous dead out-of-tree drivers. That would be
just sad.

  i make these arguments on a regular basis with all of my clients
but, as a contractor, i have little influence. but i will continue to
make them.

rday

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