Hi, Peter Czanik schrieb: > But if we get back to stone age and support only a smaller subset of > drivers, and a lot others will just go away, as the main selling point: > easy installation and exceptional hardware support just go away.
This only affects a *small* subset of ISDN and DSL cards and exactly one wireless chipset (atheros). I fully expect that the GPL driver for the wireless chipset will soon be stable enough to be shipped with the media and that the ISDN case can be completely resolved with GPL drivers if you don't need analog modem emulation. That means the only with a possible support problem are the Fritz-DSL cards (I don't have enough information about these). Proprietary graphics drivers are not affected as they were not shipped on the media anyway. So let's summarize: Short-term changes: Less WLAN/ISDN/DSL cards supported out of the box. Long-term changes: Less DSL cards supported out of the box. Personally, I think this is entirely acceptable since it reduces support load on SUSE kernel developers (less tainted oopses) and respects the express will of the kernel developing community. I will prepare a wiki page about the topic so that we can point to it for future flamewars. Suggested title is "New driver architecture". Comments? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
