Re: Kernel Version specific vendor override possibilities needed - Revert and provide osi=linux or provide a replacement

Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21T14:55:46Z

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:48:33PM +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:

> How about WMI?
> Do you think that there will be some point in the future,
> when we could claim that our WMI implementation is the
> same as Windows + HW manufacturer private driver?

When vendors require custom drivers, we're going to end up requiring a
custom driver. That's true regardless of how the functionality is
exposed. The solution there is to encourage vendors not to require
custom drivers, not to get them to expose the same functionality in two
different ways.

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