On Saturday, 15 of December 2007, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:25:50AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > Either distributions have to install it automatically or people simply > > > have > > > to read one or two lines of documentation. That's just what I wanted to > > > say. > > > > It's not that simple. For example, regression testing will be a major PITA > > if one needs to switch back and forth from the new driver to the old one in > > the > > process. > > Not really true -- a single system can easily have firmware installed > for b43, b43legacy, and bcm43xx at the same time and switch back and > forth between them. > > Given a functioning udev configuration, the persistent naming even > works so that your device stays as 'eth1' when switching to and > fro bcm43xx.
Well, this last bit doesn't work on my openSUSE 10.3. Honest, guv. ;-) > I really think everyone is overstating the problem. You might be right. Greetings, Rafael -- 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/
