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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean?
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 23:49:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030518214939.GC452@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030518013926.GA16286@pegasys.ws>

Hi!

> > Maybe better sticker would be
> > 
> > "includes driver sources".
> > 
> > [Long time ago I got double-speed cdrom, and on its driver disk, there
> > was C source of the driver. Porting it to linux was matter of two
> > days, IIRC. And it had korean comments ;-)].
> 
> Perhaps you'd be willing to help Aunt Tillie do this.  Your
> definition of "includes driver sources" will appeal to such a
> small market segment it isn't worth the ink on the box.

Sure, Aunt Tillie can pay SuSE.cz to have that driver updated to any
kernel she wants ;-).

[Really, if the card is common enough, and driver sources are
available, they are going to be in kernel.org kernel within few weeks.]

								Pavel
-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-18 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-13 15:12 What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-13 20:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-05-14  2:12   ` jw schultz
2003-05-14  7:57     ` Riley Williams
2003-05-14 17:58       ` Måns Rullgård
2003-05-17 16:05         ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-18  1:39           ` jw schultz
2003-05-18  3:53             ` Werner Almesberger
2003-05-18 21:49             ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-05-18 22:20               ` Neale Banks
2003-05-19 10:20                 ` Helge Hafting
2003-05-14 14:11     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 15:29       ` Mike Dresser
2003-05-15  0:11       ` jw schultz
2003-05-14 14:09   ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 14:44     ` Dave Jones
2003-05-14 15:58       ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 16:14         ` Dave Jones
2003-05-14 19:40       ` David Schwartz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-13 13:16 Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-05-13 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-13 14:24   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-13 15:07     ` Lionel Bouton
2003-05-13 16:45   ` Jonathan Matthews
2003-05-13 13:46 ` Duncan Sands

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