[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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. You are using a different meaning of "depend" than the one used by policy. I can't see why it should matter if a device driver is designed to use features present in a specific firmware revision.
-- ciao, Marco
