[PATCH] pnp.ids

[Pozsár Balázs]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:12:33PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Use-case: You plug in a webcam and you don't have drivers. You click the 
> "search for driver" button and we retrieve a .fdi file saying "use the 
> foobar42 driver" - this can be retrieve from either the media supplied 
> by the hardware vendor (in a 1000 years) or from the Internet (more 
> likely). Somehow, magically, your distributions package manager finds 
> that it needs to apt-get or yum this or that package that provides the 
> foobar42 driver that works with your current kernel. Bingo, stuff works.

So, in the end, we are down to installing some package(s) and things 
just work. Where are these packages come from?
a) Your linux distro vendor. This is a non-case, because you could (and 
   should!) already have it via up2date or whatever.
   (For example, if we are talking about a kernel driver, updated kernel 
   packages can ship the new drivers.)
b) Other sites. I am really pessimistic about these... Can you image 
   that all (most) vendors on the world would cooperate on a system 
   where linux drivers are automatically downloaded from their sites?
   Come on...
   And anyway, just look at the current kernel development trends:
   All leading kernel devs are pushing the policy "our way, or the 
   highway", iow, push your driver in the main tree or your own.


All in all, users should receive drivers and driver updates via package 
updates. And that is system is already implemented and working 
perfectly.


ps: Don't get me wrong I don't want flame, all I want is the best system 
we could have in the long (or not so long) run :)

-- 
pozsy
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