6 Aug
2007
6 Aug
'07
5:51 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:13:12PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Then, well, you made it really too dramatic.
Requesting the update to
the latest kernel is a very standard procedure. Otherwise, the
developer cannot start real debugging at all.
Not being a kernel/driver specialist at all, I do have some
difficulty in believing this.
The kernel has to call some routines in the driver, and provide
some services to it. I find it difficult to imagine
- how a kernel bug could affect just one driver and have no
impact on all the others.
- that if there's anything wrong with these interfaces a system
could work at all,
I assume most drivers are using the same interfaces to the
kernel, and the same services, and that these are relatively
stable.
But I could be completely wrong...
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