Re: [Q]: Linux and real device drivers
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
27 Sep 1999 14:09:07 -0700
In article <linux.kernel.19990927214440.B193@lamia.loth.demon.co.uk>,
Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>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"?
Then that puts Linux in the same boat as every other operating system
on the planet.
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david parsons \bi/ Mind you, it's already in that boat.
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