Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:35:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>
cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
       Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux drivers management
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, David Chow wrote:
> There is no right or wrong for this question, but my original question is to
> listen thoughts and to hear the goal of people in the list. And of course, I
> would really like to see you people look into the way to facilitate more
> people gets a path with ease to Linux drivers development. User driver
> installation without the need to know about kernel sources, gcc, make etc....
> "Because I am a dummy, I want to plug-in my device, put in the driver disc and
> hope it works!"

Because I'm not a dummy, I want to plug-in my device, and it will work.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

P.S. Which driver disc? On which format? Anyone still has a floppy drive?
     Where's the driver to my memory card reader?
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds
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