From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:32:25 +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 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 _______________________________________________ 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