IMHO,
This would be great for many devices. Take Belkin's devices for example.
The only way to make my FSU109 work is not even via the "Belkin" driver.
But hey, it's a lovely hack! Congrats to the Gentleman that did it (with all
of their research) about a month ago I believe.
I do feel that it is sad that people who wish to maintain a sane OS must
perform this guessing game. I bet it must be pretty rough to receive a good
specification just to write a device driver.
<off topic>
I have been looking for a simple USB GPS device, and I can't even get enough
info from a vendor to determine if it has the PL2303 chip or not. In most
cases, they claim "I don't know"!
</off topic>
Regards,
Todd E. Johnson
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:19:11PM -0800, Dmitri wrote:
>
> Another way is this:
>
> The OEM sets up a Web site with a CGI script and couple of versions of
> GCC. The user goes to the Web site, uploads his Linux configuration
> information (few files) and the CGI script compiles the driver for him!
>
> This can be highly automated, and such a CGI script can be offered to all
> OEMs to use... even cross-platform compilation should be possible. Does it
> sound like a good idea?
That's a good idea if you can't release the code. Would make it a lot
easier to provide prebuilt versions for popular kernels (like specific
distro versions).
greg k-h
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