On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:37:33PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>
> > All that is "involved" is the fact that HAL is not doing anything with
> > ISA so you have to add the line to your modprobe file on your own.
> > That's a perfictly acceptable work-around.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> > So, are we going too fast? Well, people with new hardware don't think
> > so, as there is a constant pressure from them to support their new
> > kit. But for older things, like ISA, the developers upstream simply do
> > not even have access to it. I suggest offering them code or hardware
> > to help change this.
>
> We can certainly offer the hardware - can you suggest someone I might
> want to get in touch with?
The HAL project is located at:
http://hal.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal
I suggest you contact them.
> Personally, I think the project is moving too fast when production
> hardware is being left behind.
Note, this is not something specific to opensuse, but to the whole Linux
ecosystem. We are relying on a upstream development project here. So
to single out opensuse is a bit unfair, you are going to have the same
problem on gentoo or ubuntu or fedora too.
thanks,
greg k-h
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