Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751707AbWCIJ0f (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 04:26:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751771AbWCIJ0f (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 04:26:35 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:10662 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751707AbWCIJ0e (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 04:26:34 -0500 Message-ID: <440FF4C0.9000102@aitel.hist.no> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:26:24 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anshuman Gholap CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. References: <20060308102731.GO27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 29 Anshuman Gholap wrote: >well ya, I knew i was running the risk to be labelled like that, cause >i thought to talk of this issue, more shake is needed that just stir. > >please dont get me wrong (even though i think most of you already >have), i own my graditude for the livelihood i am having to >linux,linus and co. > > >this discussion is totally for betterment of the new users who should >not be forced to become developers in order to get a trival thing >running on their desktop/laptop, like device driver. > > The new user who don't want to be developer should get his linux from a linux distributor, who will provide _all_ supported drivers auto-installed during a normal install. No development by the user, no compiling. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/