Re: [Q]: Linux and real device drivers

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:44:40 +0100


On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 12:33:59AM -0400, tytso@mit.edu wrote:

> Or... Banavision capture card comes with diskette or CD-ROM containing
> an RPM file which the user simply has to install using RPM -i. As part
> of the RPM install, the post-install script automatically recompiles the
> driver to match the kernel the user has installed, and it just works.

Or... the installed vendor-supplied driver initially seems to work but in
actual fact has peculiar and insidious bugs that are infrequent enough that
the driver isn't implicated, but frequent enough that the user begins to
curse Linux as "buggy and unstable"?

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