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