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  1. .. _process_statement_driver:
  2. Kernel Driver Statement
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  4. Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
  5. ==========================================
  6. We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source
  7. Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have
  8. repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and
  9. the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness,
  10. stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development
  11. model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux
  12. community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their
  13. customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors.
  14. Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and
  15. shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to
  16. adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source
  17. kernel code.
  18. We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for
  19. today, have in the past, or will in the future.
  20. - Dave Airlie
  21. - Nick Andrew
  22. - Jens Axboe
  23. - Ralf Baechle
  24. - Felipe Balbi
  25. - Ohad Ben-Cohen
  26. - Muli Ben-Yehuda
  27. - Jiri Benc
  28. - Arnd Bergmann
  29. - Thomas Bogendoerfer
  30. - Vitaly Bordug
  31. - James Bottomley
  32. - Josh Boyer
  33. - Neil Brown
  34. - Mark Brown
  35. - David Brownell
  36. - Michael Buesch
  37. - Franck Bui-Huu
  38. - Adrian Bunk
  39. - François Cami
  40. - Ralph Campbell
  41. - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
  42. - Mauro Carvalho Chehab
  43. - Denis Cheng
  44. - Jonathan Corbet
  45. - Glauber Costa
  46. - Alan Cox
  47. - Magnus Damm
  48. - Ahmed S. Darwish
  49. - Robert P. J. Day
  50. - Hans de Goede
  51. - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  52. - Helge Deller
  53. - Jean Delvare
  54. - Mathieu Desnoyers
  55. - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
  56. - Alexey Dobriyan
  57. - Daniel Drake
  58. - Alex Dubov
  59. - Randy Dunlap
  60. - Michael Ellerman
  61. - Pekka Enberg
  62. - Jan Engelhardt
  63. - Mark Fasheh
  64. - J. Bruce Fields
  65. - Larry Finger
  66. - Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  67. - Mike Frysinger
  68. - Kumar Gala
  69. - Robin Getz
  70. - Liam Girdwood
  71. - Jan-Benedict Glaw
  72. - Thomas Gleixner
  73. - Brice Goglin
  74. - Cyrill Gorcunov
  75. - Andy Gospodarek
  76. - Thomas Graf
  77. - Krzysztof Halasa
  78. - Harvey Harrison
  79. - Stephen Hemminger
  80. - Michael Hennerich
  81. - Tejun Heo
  82. - Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  83. - Kristian Høgsberg
  84. - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
  85. - Marcel Holtmann
  86. - Mike Isely
  87. - Takashi Iwai
  88. - Olof Johansson
  89. - Dave Jones
  90. - Jesper Juhl
  91. - Matthias Kaehlcke
  92. - Kenji Kaneshige
  93. - Jan Kara
  94. - Jeremy Kerr
  95. - Russell King
  96. - Olaf Kirch
  97. - Roel Kluin
  98. - Hans-Jürgen Koch
  99. - Auke Kok
  100. - Peter Korsgaard
  101. - Jiri Kosina
  102. - Aaro Koskinen
  103. - Mariusz Kozlowski
  104. - Greg Kroah-Hartman
  105. - Michael Krufky
  106. - Aneesh Kumar
  107. - Clemens Ladisch
  108. - Christoph Lameter
  109. - Gunnar Larisch
  110. - Anders Larsen
  111. - Grant Likely
  112. - John W. Linville
  113. - Yinghai Lu
  114. - Tony Luck
  115. - Pavel Machek
  116. - Matt Mackall
  117. - Paul Mackerras
  118. - Roland McGrath
  119. - Patrick McHardy
  120. - Kyle McMartin
  121. - Paul Menage
  122. - Thierry Merle
  123. - Eric Miao
  124. - Akinobu Mita
  125. - Ingo Molnar
  126. - James Morris
  127. - Andrew Morton
  128. - Paul Mundt
  129. - Oleg Nesterov
  130. - Luca Olivetti
  131. - S.Çağlar Onur
  132. - Pierre Ossman
  133. - Keith Owens
  134. - Venkatesh Pallipadi
  135. - Nick Piggin
  136. - Nicolas Pitre
  137. - Evgeniy Polyakov
  138. - Richard Purdie
  139. - Mike Rapoport
  140. - Sam Ravnborg
  141. - Gerrit Renker
  142. - Stefan Richter
  143. - David Rientjes
  144. - Luis R. Rodriguez
  145. - Stefan Roese
  146. - Francois Romieu
  147. - Rami Rosen
  148. - Stephen Rothwell
  149. - Maciej W. Rozycki
  150. - Mark Salyzyn
  151. - Yoshinori Sato
  152. - Deepak Saxena
  153. - Holger Schurig
  154. - Amit Shah
  155. - Yoshihiro Shimoda
  156. - Sergei Shtylyov
  157. - Kay Sievers
  158. - Sebastian Siewior
  159. - Rik Snel
  160. - Jes Sorensen
  161. - Alexey Starikovskiy
  162. - Alan Stern
  163. - Timur Tabi
  164. - Hirokazu Takata
  165. - Eliezer Tamir
  166. - Eugene Teo
  167. - Doug Thompson
  168. - FUJITA Tomonori
  169. - Dmitry Torokhov
  170. - Marcelo Tosatti
  171. - Steven Toth
  172. - Theodore Tso
  173. - Matthias Urlichs
  174. - Geert Uytterhoeven
  175. - Arjan van de Ven
  176. - Ivo van Doorn
  177. - Rik van Riel
  178. - Wim Van Sebroeck
  179. - Hans Verkuil
  180. - Horst H. von Brand
  181. - Dmitri Vorobiev
  182. - Anton Vorontsov
  183. - Daniel Walker
  184. - Johannes Weiner
  185. - Harald Welte
  186. - Matthew Wilcox
  187. - Dan J. Williams
  188. - Darrick J. Wong
  189. - David Woodhouse
  190. - Chris Wright
  191. - Bryan Wu
  192. - Rafael J. Wysocki
  193. - Herbert Xu
  194. - Vlad Yasevich
  195. - Peter Zijlstra
  196. - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz