From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 07:35:34 +0000 Subject: Re: Automatic download and installation of drivers. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org > What we need now is to find: > - the best way to to use HTTP for the task. > - the best way to organize scripts/programs to have a general framework > for requesting drivers of all kinds. > - actual database servers which are globally accessible to do the work. > - actual manufacturers to simply provide downloads in their ftp servers. Actually I think you've got the order backwards: find systems that need this kind of software distribution model first; then let their needs drive development of such an alternative distribution scheme (and assurance of its trustworthiness/security). I can imagine local sites hosting some servers for their local users, for example. While I've sometimes been intrigued by such schemes, I'll have to be contrarian in this case and say it's more interesting than useful at the moment. (Even for environments like Java, which was designed for that model of software distribution.) The current Linux model is that driver distribution is tightly coupled to the associated kernel. That is known to work well. What's the motivation for another model? - Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel