Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: pre*-6 breaks PCMCIA again | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 23:05:42 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I think facts have proved otherwise. Can you give an example of > functionality that could be achieved by integration into the kernel > source tree, that is currently not available?
The obvious big issue for the future is cardbus, hot swap everything is where the world is going. Providing there is a clean way to handle PCI hotswap issues without merging the code I really dont see a problem anyway.
> It is only apparently-feasible at the moment because Linux doesn't > have all that many drivers. The driver subtree has roughly doubled in > going from 2.0.* to 2.1.*. I'd expect that trend to continue. What > do we do when vendors start taking a serious interest and start > writing drivers? (I've heard rumors that a number of major vendors > are now committed to developing Linux drivers)
The ones I know are mostly very very keen to get their drivers in the standard tree actually.
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