Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (838 mails)

[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:45:03 -0800
Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:04:14PM +0100, jdd wrote:
> > * I would add: make USB hardware more linux friendly, but this is more
> > a kernel problem. I anyway open a feature for that, but I don't know
> > exactly how we can make it successfull
> > https://features.opensuse.org/311441
>
> What USB hardware does not work on Linux today?  I have a bunch of USB
> devices that don't work on Windows, should that be an issue the other
> way around?

Yeah, really. Whenever I plug something USB into a Windows box it always
asks for a driver while in Linux it just works.

This "USB support not good in Linux" urban legend should finally die, but
it seems to live forever.

> Heck, we support USB 3.0 on Linux, while no other operating system does,
> is that a problem?
>
> Again, specifics are important here, broad general statements like this
> fate entry will get no where as they are impossible to address.

For flashing my Linux phone there's only Windows software available AFAIK.
But that's nothing we can solve with a FATE entry, Motorola has to get
their Milestones hit on some managers head instead...
:-)
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

"Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!"
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