Re: drivers DB and id/ info registration
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 08:26, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> said:
> > On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 21:53, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 26 May 2004 13:07, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > > Primarily for manufacturers to provide/ submit information to.
> > > > Therefore the second primary target I guess would be developers.
> > > > Thirdly is users.
> > >
> > > Any viable manufacturer already has such place.
> > > It's _its own website_.
> >
> > That is empirically not effective (enough) to achieve this goal
> > (seamless hardware support/ 'nice user naming') that I wish to
> > see achieved.
>
> Then set it up! It is a free world (and free operating system). If it gets
> where you want, more power to you!
That is the next step - just fact finding and contribution gathering
at the moment :)
Will post with updates in time.
> But remember that most "dosen't work" in Linux is due to vendors not
> _willing_ to part with the detailed data to get their junk working, not a
> fault of the developers.
Of course.
Thanks
Zenaan
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