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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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