On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:25:50AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Either distributions have to install it automatically or people simply have
> > to read one or two lines of documentation. That's just what I wanted to say.
>
> It's not that simple. For example, regression testing will be a major PITA
> if one needs to switch back and forth from the new driver to the old one in the
> process.
Not really true -- a single system can easily have firmware installed
for b43, b43legacy, and bcm43xx at the same time and switch back and
forth between them.
Given a functioning udev configuration, the persistent naming even
works so that your device stays as 'eth1' when switching to and
fro bcm43xx. I really think everyone is overstating the problem.
John
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