Re: [Sheflug] Network card installation

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:

> To be honest, I would guess that LinkSys are using the latest driver, I

Guess. They probably are not up to dat ewith current kernel intefaces.

> wouldn't say it's "third party" necessarily. The tulip drivers out with
> 2.2.x aren't supposed to be great, and most people aren't going to check a
> driver out of a dev. kernel. I don't have a copy of Sammy's driver, but I
> wouldn't be surprised if a diff between that and the linksys one showed very
> little difference. Linksys have helped the kernel driver development before
> (I believe), they're not one of these dodgy binary-only type people or
> something like that..

But if it isn't in the main tree, why not?
The whole idea of open source is you contribute your changes. Linus isn't
a search engine that automatically finds new drivers. If they aren't
submitted there is NO guarantee they will work. And chances are the
2.4.0-test kernel will be the latest version.


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