Mauricio Teixeira schrieb:
Christoph Thiel wrote:
ndiswrapper was never supported, and probably never will be supported by SUSE / Novell. It's simply impossible for our kernel developers to debug
Ok. Let me get this straight: you mean *SUSE kernel developers* or *main kernel developers*?
Both.
IMHO, SUSE doesn't have to care about it, considering you (the distro) get the module and the binary working and loading, the rest is with ndiswrapper developers.
People will complain either way. If ndiswrapper works but crashes, people will say that Linux is unstable. If ndiswrapper is not shipped, people will say that Linux doesn't support their hardware. Crashes are obviously worse for the reputation of a distribution, so it makes very much sense to NOT support or encourage ndiswrapper. And most people are stubborn enough to insist that ndiswrapper is not the cause of their crashes and even falsely claim untainted kernels just to get support. This leads to loads of wasted time for SUSE and mainline kernel developers. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/