18 Jan
2012
18 Jan
'12
3:06 p.m.
On 18.01.2012 18:14, Jakob Eriksson wrote:
On January 18, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Adam<geekdundee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's a loadable module, yes, and it loads dynamically indeed. There is
one issue though: the binary driver itself has to be recompiled with
every Linux kernel update. I personally experience this when I patch the
bt8x8 video capture device driver for my 8 ports capturing card, every
time I manually patch source code to include my specific hardware (oh
yes, it's already 5 years old, it's being sold in every hardware shop,
but still it's not in the linux kernel).
P.S. Proper answer from Linux team would be "We accept patches!" :-).
WBR,
Aleksey.
Although that would require recompiling the
kernel just to
install/uninstall drivers. I do understand loadable modules are
supported but I'm not sure this applies to drivers. And if it does, I
doubt it would apply to all drivers.
No recompile. It applies to all drivers for PCI and USB devices and huge bunch
of other things. Almost everything is loadable, including all routing tricks.