18 Jan
2012
18 Jan
'12
3:42 p.m.
Am 18.01.2012 16:06, schrieb Aleksey Bragin:
On 18.01.2012 18:14, Jakob Eriksson wrote:
Well... I DID sent in patches to get my video capture device supported
and since 2.9.38 I can finally use it without manually compiling the
"standalone variant" provided by the driver's maintainer ;)
Regards,
Sven
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!" :-). 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.