From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Automatic download and installation of drivers.
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:01:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-100328420422836@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-100319421829170@msgid-missing>
> One motivation is to lower the barrier for hardware vendors who want to
> provide drivers. So far it is very difficult for them. Either they provide a
> dozen of RPM packages and still can not reach all Linux users (like nvidia)
> or they don't even try and support one or two distributions (AVM supports
> only SuSE on their ISDN adapter).
Easy fix: provide a patch to the kernel source, rather than going with
a binary distribution model. The model of binary driver distributions
is a problem. It's my understanding that most hardware vendors would
rather not be in that game, but MSFT forced them to play that way.
> The advantage for users is that they can get drivers for new devices or
> updates without waiting for a new release of their distribution.
With a patch, "knowledgeable" users can get going right away. All
others are going to need to wait for a new release in any case, or
will ask their "knowledgeable user" friends for help.
- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-17 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-16 0:02 Automatic download and installation of drivers Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-16 5:29 ` Greg KH
2001-10-16 7:35 ` David Brownell
2001-10-16 7:58 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-16 11:38 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-16 16:52 ` Greg KH
2001-10-16 18:44 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-16 18:58 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-16 19:19 ` Greg KH
2001-10-17 2:01 ` David Brownell [this message]
2001-10-17 2:03 ` David Brownell
2001-10-17 18:47 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-17 19:24 ` David Brownell
2001-10-17 23:31 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-17 23:32 ` Greg KH
2001-10-18 0:07 ` Dmitri
2001-10-18 0:19 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-18 0:47 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-18 2:17 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-18 2:35 ` Dmitri
2001-10-29 21:53 ` Greg KH
2001-10-30 8:26 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-30 17:21 ` Greg KH
2001-10-30 21:24 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-30 21:51 ` Dmitri
2001-10-31 12:36 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-31 20:49 ` Greg KH
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