On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Well, you forgot the point that maybe it is not that simple to get such > > a seemingly simple change into the firmware for a long list of reasons. > > The reasons being? .. the reason being that people just expect existing firmware to work, for example. The point being, even if a newer firmware was _available_, people wouldn't necessarily run with it. We do *not* accept "upgrade the BIOS" as an answer to broken BIOSes either. We work around BIOS limitations. There can easily be other issues too. The DMA engine literally might only do word-aligned transfers. Or other operating systems have different rules from Linux, and the firmware is designed for those other systems. Realistically, if it works with Windows, and I was a hardware team, and the Linux people were whining about it, I'd feel perfectly fine in saying "you're the buggy ones, we work fine". So no, whining about hardware or firmware features isn't really very productive. You take what you get. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
