Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: [Q]: Linux and real device drivers | Date | 27 Sep 1999 14:09:07 -0700 |
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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.
____ david parsons \bi/ Mind you, it's already in that boat. \/
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