Back-porting drivers have to go through
you (well, with 2.0 and 2.2). How well do
you scale, and wouldn't you rather be doing
more exciting things...
From a more realistic line, a low-linux
skilled user (e.g. a school or my mum) can
do simple things like call up web pages and
type simple commands. We're going to have to
provide a method for hardware vendors to
cater for this class of user because this is
their main market.
Downloading a file off the net, having it
run - prompting for the root password, then
having it compile a module, install it, then
exit should be enough.
Tim
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote in message
news:<E11Vc4b-0007xa-00@the-village.bc.nu>...
> > User buys Banavision capture card. Oops! Not supported in 2.2. User
> > has to wait for the 2.4 kernel to come out (months and months
> > away).... or use a development kernel. Whoops! 2.3 kernel has
>
> Come off it Ted, you know perfectly well we back port drivers as they
become
> stable - aggressively so.
>
> Alan
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