On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:51 PM, chandrakant kumar <k.03chan...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Drivers are the part of kernel not the distro. As per my knowledge all > distros use same kernel with some custom patches. If you want support > for latest hardware, download the latest kernel source from kernel.org > and compile it. > > Sure....drivers are now mostly kernel loadable modules. But, drivers are written for particular hardware and need to be included in the distro, for it to support that hardware. Earlier, they used to be in kernel, now dynamically loaded as kernel modules, but the responsibility to include them still rests with the distros. _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
