1.. _process_statement_driver: 2 3Kernel Driver Statement 4----------------------- 5 6Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules 7========================================== 8 9 10We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source 11Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have 12repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and 13the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, 14stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development 15model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux 16community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their 17customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. 18Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and 19shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to 20adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source 21kernel code. 22 23We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for 24today, have in the past, or will in the future. 25 26 - Dave Airlie 27 - Nick Andrew 28 - Jens Axboe 29 - Ralf Baechle 30 - Felipe Balbi 31 - Ohad Ben-Cohen 32 - Muli Ben-Yehuda 33 - Jiri Benc 34 - Arnd Bergmann 35 - Thomas Bogendoerfer 36 - Vitaly Bordug 37 - James Bottomley 38 - Josh Boyer 39 - Neil Brown 40 - Mark Brown 41 - David Brownell 42 - Michael Buesch 43 - Franck Bui-Huu 44 - Adrian Bunk 45 - François Cami 46 - Ralph Campbell 47 - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino 48 - Mauro Carvalho Chehab 49 - Denis Cheng 50 - Jonathan Corbet 51 - Glauber Costa 52 - Alan Cox 53 - Magnus Damm 54 - Ahmed S. Darwish 55 - Robert P. J. Day 56 - Hans de Goede 57 - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 58 - Helge Deller 59 - Jean Delvare 60 - Mathieu Desnoyers 61 - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich 62 - Alexey Dobriyan 63 - Daniel Drake 64 - Alex Dubov 65 - Randy Dunlap 66 - Michael Ellerman 67 - Pekka Enberg 68 - Jan Engelhardt 69 - Mark Fasheh 70 - J. Bruce Fields 71 - Larry Finger 72 - Jeremy Fitzhardinge 73 - Mike Frysinger 74 - Kumar Gala 75 - Robin Getz 76 - Liam Girdwood 77 - Jan-Benedict Glaw 78 - Thomas Gleixner 79 - Brice Goglin 80 - Cyrill Gorcunov 81 - Andy Gospodarek 82 - Thomas Graf 83 - Krzysztof Halasa 84 - Harvey Harrison 85 - Stephen Hemminger 86 - Michael Hennerich 87 - Tejun Heo 88 - Benjamin Herrenschmidt 89 - Kristian Høgsberg 90 - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 91 - Marcel Holtmann 92 - Mike Isely 93 - Takashi Iwai 94 - Olof Johansson 95 - Dave Jones 96 - Jesper Juhl 97 - Matthias Kaehlcke 98 - Kenji Kaneshige 99 - Jan Kara 100 - Jeremy Kerr 101 - Russell King 102 - Olaf Kirch 103 - Roel Kluin 104 - Hans-Jürgen Koch 105 - Auke Kok 106 - Peter Korsgaard 107 - Jiri Kosina 108 - Aaro Koskinen 109 - Mariusz Kozlowski 110 - Greg Kroah-Hartman 111 - Michael Krufky 112 - Aneesh Kumar 113 - Clemens Ladisch 114 - Christoph Lameter 115 - Gunnar Larisch 116 - Anders Larsen 117 - Grant Likely 118 - John W. Linville 119 - Yinghai Lu 120 - Tony Luck 121 - Pavel Machek 122 - Matt Mackall 123 - Paul Mackerras 124 - Roland McGrath 125 - Patrick McHardy 126 - Kyle McMartin 127 - Paul Menage 128 - Thierry Merle 129 - Eric Miao 130 - Akinobu Mita 131 - Ingo Molnar 132 - James Morris 133 - Andrew Morton 134 - Paul Mundt 135 - Oleg Nesterov 136 - Luca Olivetti 137 - S.Çağlar Onur 138 - Pierre Ossman 139 - Keith Owens 140 - Venkatesh Pallipadi 141 - Nick Piggin 142 - Nicolas Pitre 143 - Evgeniy Polyakov 144 - Richard Purdie 145 - Mike Rapoport 146 - Sam Ravnborg 147 - Gerrit Renker 148 - Stefan Richter 149 - David Rientjes 150 - Luis R. Rodriguez 151 - Stefan Roese 152 - Francois Romieu 153 - Rami Rosen 154 - Stephen Rothwell 155 - Maciej W. Rozycki 156 - Mark Salyzyn 157 - Yoshinori Sato 158 - Deepak Saxena 159 - Holger Schurig 160 - Amit Shah 161 - Yoshihiro Shimoda 162 - Sergei Shtylyov 163 - Kay Sievers 164 - Sebastian Siewior 165 - Rik Snel 166 - Jes Sorensen 167 - Alexey Starikovskiy 168 - Alan Stern 169 - Timur Tabi 170 - Hirokazu Takata 171 - Eliezer Tamir 172 - Eugene Teo 173 - Doug Thompson 174 - FUJITA Tomonori 175 - Dmitry Torokhov 176 - Marcelo Tosatti 177 - Steven Toth 178 - Theodore Tso 179 - Matthias Urlichs 180 - Geert Uytterhoeven 181 - Arjan van de Ven 182 - Ivo van Doorn 183 - Rik van Riel 184 - Wim Van Sebroeck 185 - Hans Verkuil 186 - Horst H. von Brand 187 - Dmitri Vorobiev 188 - Anton Vorontsov 189 - Daniel Walker 190 - Johannes Weiner 191 - Harald Welte 192 - Matthew Wilcox 193 - Dan J. Williams 194 - Darrick J. Wong 195 - David Woodhouse 196 - Chris Wright 197 - Bryan Wu 198 - Rafael J. Wysocki 199 - Herbert Xu 200 - Vlad Yasevich 201 - Peter Zijlstra 202 - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 203