Hi H-P, On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:31:33PM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 12:29 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: > > This only affects a *small* subset of ISDN and DSL cards and exactly > > one wireless chipset (atheros). I fully expect that the GPL driver > > The only wireless chipset/pci card, which handles wpa encryption - cool.
My prism2 works with WPA, as did ipw2x00 when I last tested. [...] > > 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. > > Sure, disappointing customers definitely reduces the support load in > every company. Such an attitude will actively damage the reputation of > SUSE and you know - one disappointed customer has much more weight (and > will spread the word louder) than ten satisfied ones. I don't think Carl-Daniel wanted to make the point that SUSE kernel developers want to work less. But they can lose a lot of time with trying to work on issues that can not be resolved due to the presence of closed kernel modules. No theory, sad fact of life. I think their time is better invested if they work on improving the open-source drivers and get more of them into Linux and the distribution. Long-term it means better hardware support, not worse. [...] > How about > "New driver architecture - Novells disaster seekers strike back" Cynicism is always nice :-) Best, -- Kurt Garloff, Head Architect, Director SUSE Labs (act.), Novell Inc.
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