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- geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+65The ***** Source (TFS):
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2566703695.html
Link to it next time. - Phocion55, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18http://www.digg.com/faq
Question #2. - scottmc, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15"The only requirement of the device driver developers is that they must sign an NDA during the development effort, but all code for the driver is released into the kernel under the GPL."
Wrong. Reread the original source, an NDA is only required when the hardware maker requests it, which isn't true in all cases. - Yoshi39, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Maybe I have missed something but couldn't you just mark the drivers as "m" (standing for module) instead of "y" (standing for yes meaning integrate it into the kernel) when compiling your kernel to achieve the effect you are talking about?
- thedsadude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Can't thank the guys working on the drivers enough. Must be tough working on something of whose existence the average user is unaware. We'd all be screwed without your work.
- BackDoorAngel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12yup, read the author of the linked blog post, "Riyad Kalla." Now the username of the submitter, "rkalla" which, if you click on his name, guess what his name is? Riyad Kalla.
dugg down cuz Riyad is a douche. - ruiacp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I agree, there are a lot of "Blog that link to some new" topics here! Are they posted by blog owners to get readers?
- SignorDildo, on 10/10/2007, -13/+19Great. Fine. Lovely. Smashing. Champion. Super. Now can we dump this kernel+driver architecture and separate the two? I'm sick of recompiling kernels to dump the crap that's not needed. All drivers other than the minimal necessary to mount a [transient] filesystem should be modules.
- WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5http://www.digg.com/stfu
Answer #1: Shut the f**k up! No one cares what you think should be on digg... - starquake, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6People should really point to the FAQ more often!
- JohnFlux, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Like what?
Please give me some examples of what is compilied into the kernel in a modern distro, is useless, and takes up resources. - frazw, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4How is it spam if it is a news item about something people here clearly want to talk about. This is just news about the progress of the OS for those that use it and what we might expect in the future.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's spam it means you don't know how to use digg. If you don't like anything that is submitted GTFO. - zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Since when is a Kernel+Driver architecture Linux-exclusive. Windows does this: ntoskernel + Drivers? MacOS does this, it's UNIX-based, but you don't see problems 'cause of Mac-only.
- cristiv, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3This sounds really really cool (especially for us laptops users) but pardon my ignorance: what is Novell's angle here? How are they making money off of this? And if in the process of developing these drivers they happen to tress-pass a patent owned by Microsoft are the clients in the clear or not?
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Of course what we need is an effort to take the produced code and reverse engineer it to a specification. That way we get the best of both worlds.
- dext3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So it DOES work :)
- Kr4t05, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3It's not a router, it's a wireless card.
However, I got my Broadcom BCM4318 working with ndiswrapper as well as the bcmfw-cutter package. I'm using the laptop it's installed on to type this comment. - picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3You mean there's a difference between Ubuntu and Linux?
/sarcasm - airquotes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yes i got my wps54gs which is bcom based to work, im just saying there isnt always great support especially with uncooperative companies
- dualscreenman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1PS3 -> Yellow Dog Linux -> sixaxis battery explosion driver?
- damentz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No actually there are no lines to read between, sorry.
- derkmerkin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I had this big reply for you and i just said ***** it, its not worth trying to talk/reason with people like you with your mentality.
- jonesin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Would that make it slower at all, if it were modular? What downside does it have that keeps it from being implemented that way?
- Feanor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1*BSD does nearly everything modular. Its not really a speed factor, its a size/bloat factor.
- Feanor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1He's complaining about all the crap not needed during an initial install that isn't direct from source.
- arizonagroove, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3"Linux Driver Development Exploding"
There might be a joke about drivers for Sony batteries in there somewhere. If you try really really hard. - Feanor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I would Digg you up a million times.
- dext3r, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Ever hear of OpenWRT? It runs on broadcom based wireless routers. :)
- ShinGouki, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0yy i credit that if my HP SJ 2400 works :)
- DarkJesus, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0Alright, this is great news and everything. But there is another digg here - http://digg.com/linux_unix/Full_speed_ahead_for_Li ... .
It's a duplicate story, why is it getting dugg? - airquotes, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2now if only broadcom wireless would work or my lexmark e220 or..... whatever...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -15/+3ohhhhh.. i will miss the good old days when i would install linux hoping that i would never go back to windows, then none of my ***** would work on linux and in turn I would go back to windows.
- Dextrose, on 10/10/2007, -40/+2I'm so sick of this Linux ***** everywhere -- along with Apple -- along with Ubuntu.
It's so ***** old. People who want to buy Apple and run Linux will do so -- without all the ***** lame ass Digg spam.
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