From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Jansen Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:47:24 +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 On Wednesday 17 October 2001 04:01, David Brownell wrote: > 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. > 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 But this means, in other words, that Linux is not competitive in this area. Then regular users have to wait up to 6 months before they can use new devices because they have to wait for the next Red Hat distribution while Mac and Windows users can already use the device. It would also force them to update a stable system only for getting a new device driver. And it would result in hardware manufactures being unable to sell their new devices to the majority of Linux users before most distributions have been updated. bye... _______________________________________________ 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