Re: Driver for USB 3.0 Docking Station (displaylink?)

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> Hi, I would like to try to use un my Asus notebook with Fedora 29 this ASUS USB3.0 HZ-3 Docking Station
> https://www.asus.com/it/Laptops-Accessories/ASUS_USB30_HZ3_Docking_Station/
>
> For Linux I have found this driver:
> https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/
>
> But "Ubuntu" is not a S.O, it's a Distro! ... a S.O. like other mentioned in this page is: "Linux"! ... not "Ubuntu"
>
> Ubuntu is Linux, Linux is not Ubuntu!
> This is very irritating ... Why not share simply a driver for Linux (then for all distros) ?
>
> Why this drivers is not into kernel of default?

Basically displaylink isn't part of the open USB standards protocol
like say USB storage/input etc so it's a proprietary standard without
an open driver and without decent open spec or the details to write an
open driver its not great. I think the Arch Wiki describes it well
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DisplayLink
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