On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:43:50PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> Please repeat after me: "drivers do not require firmwares, hardware > >> devices require firmwares". > >Then, how do you explain the ipw2200 case where driver version 0.5 and > >less will only work with a certain firmware and version 0.6 and more > >will only work with an other firmware ? Isn't that what we could call > >a requirement ? > No, why? I can't see how this could be related to my argument.
I'm telling you some drivers *do depend* on a certain firmware. You're still repeating the opposite. Now explain me how in ipw2200 case the driver doesn't *depend* on the firmware, since you seem to know the truth. Mike