Re: drivers DB and id/ info registration

[Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>]

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!

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.
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