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Improving Linux Driver Installation | |
| Subject: | API problem much worse than indicated | |
| Date: | 2004-09-13 01:01:12 | |
| From: | nmailhot | |
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Response to: API problem much worse than indicated
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Don't be silly. Do you think hardware devices are manufactured out of thin air ? There is a large window between hardware design and appearance where drivers can be written, vetted and included in the source kernel tree. <br/> And the more innovative a device is, the more it is true (for stupid variants you have just to add a hardware PCI/USB id to the already-written driver). <br/> In fact drivers have been written in the past for top-secret devices not yet aven announced, even full subsystems were included before for yet-to-be released standards. Kernel inclusion is only a problem for lazy vendors (and those won't maintain correctly their out-of-tree trash anyway) |
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