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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:33:33PM +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> There are many people who don't want to mess around with hotplug just
> to get a single driver to load.

Then use a distribution that gets it right for you.  Having gazillions
of diffferent firmware loaders just because people are too lazy to set
up the canonical one isn't where we want to go.