Peter Flodin wrote:
On 5/18/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
wrote: Exactly. A driver for at least one SUSE kernel. Not a driver for Linux.
So the scenario is this (shoot me if I am wrong): [...] If I go and update my kernel, YAST knows there is a dependency from this driver and it will go and check the update URL, if the vendor is good, they will have updated their driver (perhaps even using the openSUSE Build Service), and my kernel is updated along with driver.
"If the vendor is good", the support level will be as good as in older SUSE versions. That's good. If you're running your own kernel under SUSE, you're still stranded. Maybe I'm less positive about this because I almost always have to build my own kernels on important machines (because of suspend-to-ram quirks or because I need a feature only available in newer kernels). Unless the vendors provide the source for their drivers, they are useless for me. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/