>
>"Binary drivers will make all devices just work" is a dream. Maybe a nice
>one, but just a dream. It seldom works this way in Windows (almost every
>time you run into some minor, but annoying bug noone is willing to fix),
>why should it work with Linux?
>
It's (should be: it was) worse than that. Under Win98 (Common Platform For
Binary Drivers), you had to install a usbdisk driver for every usb product
class, i.e. Samsung only provides a mass storage driver for Samsung, SONY only
for SONY drives, etc. Luckily this is a little relieved in Win2000 (CPFBD too)
where there is a generic usbdisk driver à la usb_storage.ko, which reads
more than just from one vendor.
Jan Engelhardt
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