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