Albert Cahalan wrote:
> I can see where we are currently headed. The CD-ROM that comes
> with new hardware will have "Red Hat 7.0" drivers. These will
> only work with the 2.4.8-ac4 kernel, and only when that kernel
> is compiled with the same options used by Red Hat.
>
> Hardware vendors can not expect users to know about compiling.
> It would be very dangerous to have hardware vendors supplying
> whole kernel upgrades, but what else can they do?
Some cards I've purchased recently came with driver source, admittedly it
assumed a 2.2 kernel version but it came with a makefile to build it
for you and a README file. What's the problem? If a user can't read a
README file they won't get half the hardware installed under Windows either.
If they're running unstable kernels then they're assumed to be able to patch
it up or if they have a future stable kernel will hopefully be integrated
into the mainstream kernel by then.
David.
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