Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

Alan Cox
2005-03-07T17:23:22Z

On Sad, 2005-03-05 at 22:06, Lee Revell wrote:
> Driver updates are a hard problem. Nothing annoys users more than
> unsupported hardware. But if you aggressively add support for new
> devices you can break things that have worked for ages.

You can however plan for them in advance. Guess why the -ac tree has an
ide
option to grab any otherwise unknown ide controller and stuff it in bios
tuned
DMA modes ?

Similarly you can generally apply "just PCI id" patches