From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Automatic download and installation of drivers.
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:32:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-100336213619387@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-100319421829170@msgid-missing>
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:31:17AM +0200, Tim Jansen wrote:
>
> You wouldn't need this in the kernel for automatic downloads. Actually the
> idea of automatic downloadable drivers is to provide drivers that are NOT in
> the kernel. If the user connects a new device and the system doesn't find a
> driver for it it would request one from some server. This server could either
> provide a driver itself, based the device's vendor and model id, or forward
> the system to the vendor's server which would then try to find one for the
> model.
But how do you resolve all of the previous points I raised about
compilers, .config files, in kernel apis, and security with regards to
"automatic downloads"?
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-17 23:32 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
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 [this message]
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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