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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"debian-devel@lists.debian.org" <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: drivers DB and id/ info registration]
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 11:29:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040526182919.GA25978@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1085548092.2909.60.camel@zen8100a.freedbms.net>

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:08:13PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> I think we need to somehow make it easy for manufacturers to submit
> information about their hardware - something centralized, kernel- and
> distro- neutral, that can be widely advertised to manufacturers.

What kind of information?  Device ids are pretty useless in and of
themselves.  What we need are device specs in order to produce proper
drivers.  Without that information, just having a device id is
pointless.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-26 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-26  5:08 [Fwd: Re: drivers DB and id/ info registration] Zenaan Harkness
2004-05-26  5:26 ` Zenaan Harkness
2004-05-26  5:42 ` Cef (LKML)
2004-05-26 18:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-05-26 19:34   ` Zenaan Harkness
2004-05-26 19:52     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-26 19:55     ` Greg KH
2004-05-26 20:08       ` Zenaan Harkness
2004-05-27  0:26         ` Greg KH

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