Markus Rechberger a écrit : > On 10/11/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As such, the old and decrepit em28xx driver seems more useful to people, >> since at least it supports the limited set of hardware on its own. > > it does not since it's broken and feature limited. On the other side
I have a device which works perfectly with it if you add the vendor and product ID to the list. I don't really call that broken. And it doesn't need a firmware. Please think that a lot of persons do not have enough knowledge to compile out of tree drivers, and that a lot more do not even know about this out of tree driver. > it requires a firmware from userspace too so I don't think it matters > at all if the algorithm is done in kernelspace or userspace since it > depends on such a blob (and I cannot get the source for that firmware, > if someone's interested in that he has to disassemble the firmware). > -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
