On 9/2/07, Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Honestly I can't vouch that this is ever the case. It is pure > speculation on my part. But I for one get sick of hearing "you're > hardware is broken, go suck an egg", when clearly that hardware is not > broken enough to not work on windows, using the mechanisms they have in > place (e.g. presumably reading the data from the driver cd). Okay.... here is where the conversation stops. If this is complete speculation..then there is no constructive way forward. Adam Jackson has already commented that in his opinion what is provided in the inf files is not enough to fix the problem. I strongly suggest that you go re-read everything that he wrote concerning the history of Fedora's usage of the code Ubuntu is relying on now to parse inf files. Read it... read it again.. and then when you think you understand it...read it again. Now.. it is up to anyone who disagrees with Mr. Jackson's informed historical account of the usefulness of inf parsing.. to dig out an inf file for a specific piece of hardware that doesn't currently work with Fedora's auto-detection and show...specifically..that the information provided in the inf file is enough to fix the issues that Mr. Jackson has stated can't be resolved with information from the inf file. Stop arguing that the inf should have the information necessary.. .and start showing that they do. > > (and again, for the sake of argument, lets pretend that doing anything > from a command line, or editing a text file, or researching obscure > specs about your monitor, is not an option for the users in question) I FORBID arguments for arguments sake. If you want to argue with me about that, i suggest we open up a fedora-arguments-list. > But again, this is speculation on my part. Please correct me if I'm > wrong. :) Adam Jackson has previously done just that... he wrote quite succinctly that information in inf files is not enough to solve the underlying problems. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
