From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:01:05 +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 > 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 _______________________________________________ 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