Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ipw3945 status | From | Kasper Sandberg <> | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:09:40 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 11:09 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 05:00:54PM +0200, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > thats entirely different, if some firmware image is loaded into a card, > > thats that, but running a userspace daemon is just entirely different, > > what would happen if intel for some reason stopped supporting earlier > > cards(as hardware manufactureres do after some time), and linux > > kernel/userspace gets some change, preventing the binary daemon from > > running? then what? we have lost. > > Um, last time I checked we could still run some *minix* binaries from > before Linux was born, and we still can run statically linked a.out > programs created over a decade ago. I don't think this is a serious > objection, given that historically the Linux kernel/userspace syscall > interface has been quite stable. thats besides the point, i was arguing the difference between loading a firmware image and running a binary daemon. > > Of course, I'd recomend against said driver using sysfs, but Greg K-H > tells us that all breakagaes are the fault of buggy device drivers > (just as supposedly all swsuspend problems are also about buggy device > drivers), so I guess we're OK. :-) > > - Ted >
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