1Kernel Driver Statement
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4Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
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8We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source
9Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have
10repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and
11the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness,
12stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development
13model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux
14community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their
15customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors.
16Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and
17shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to
18adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source
19kernel code.
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21We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for
22today, have in the past, or will in the future.
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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 - Aaro Koskinen
107 - Mariusz Kozlowski
108 - Greg Kroah-Hartman
109 - Michael Krufky
110 - Aneesh Kumar
111 - Clemens Ladisch
112 - Christoph Lameter
113 - Gunnar Larisch
114 - Anders Larsen
115 - Grant Likely
116 - John W. Linville
117 - Yinghai Lu
118 - Tony Luck
119 - Pavel Machek
120 - Matt Mackall
121 - Paul Mackerras
122 - Roland McGrath
123 - Patrick McHardy
124 - Kyle McMartin
125 - Paul Menage
126 - Thierry Merle
127 - Eric Miao
128 - Akinobu Mita
129 - Ingo Molnar
130 - James Morris
131 - Andrew Morton
132 - Paul Mundt
133 - Oleg Nesterov
134 - Luca Olivetti
135 - S.Çağlar Onur
136 - Pierre Ossman
137 - Keith Owens
138 - Venkatesh Pallipadi
139 - Nick Piggin
140 - Nicolas Pitre
141 - Evgeniy Polyakov
142 - Richard Purdie
143 - Mike Rapoport
144 - Sam Ravnborg
145 - Gerrit Renker
146 - Stefan Richter
147 - David Rientjes
148 - Luis R. Rodriguez
149 - Stefan Roese
150 - Francois Romieu
151 - Rami Rosen
152 - Stephen Rothwell
153 - Maciej W. Rozycki
154 - Mark Salyzyn
155 - Yoshinori Sato
156 - Deepak Saxena
157 - Holger Schurig
158 - Amit Shah
159 - Yoshihiro Shimoda
160 - Sergei Shtylyov
161 - Kay Sievers
162 - Sebastian Siewior
163 - Rik Snel
164 - Jes Sorensen
165 - Alexey Starikovskiy
166 - Alan Stern
167 - Timur Tabi
168 - Hirokazu Takata
169 - Eliezer Tamir
170 - Eugene Teo
171 - Doug Thompson
172 - FUJITA Tomonori
173 - Dmitry Torokhov
174 - Marcelo Tosatti
175 - Steven Toth
176 - Theodore Tso
177 - Matthias Urlichs
178 - Geert Uytterhoeven
179 - Arjan van de Ven
180 - Ivo van Doorn
181 - Rik van Riel
182 - Wim Van Sebroeck
183 - Hans Verkuil
184 - Horst H. von Brand
185 - Dmitri Vorobiev
186 - Anton Vorontsov
187 - Daniel Walker
188 - Johannes Weiner
189 - Harald Welte
190 - Matthew Wilcox
191 - Dan J. Williams
192 - Darrick J. Wong
193 - David Woodhouse
194 - Chris Wright
195 - Bryan Wu
196 - Rafael J. Wysocki
197 - Herbert Xu
198 - Vlad Yasevich
199 - Peter Zijlstra
200 - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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