Hicks, Jamey wrote:
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Eric Benard / FREE [mailto:ebenard@free.fr]
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:47 AM
>>To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
>>Cc: ipaq@handhelds.org; familiar@handhelds.org;
>>qpe-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] USB device support for 2.5.8
>>
>>
>>talking about the new usb driver submited to 2.5.8 kernel source tree,
>>Stuart Lynne wrote:
>>
>>>In article <1018999655.3437@whiskey.enposte.net>,
>>>The network function is compatible with a commercial Windows driver
>>>available from MCCI. This is important because few commercial products
>>>will ship without a compatible Windows driver being available.
>>>
>>>
>>does this mean Linux kernel tree must be adapted to
>>commercial drivers for Windows ?
>>
>>
>>Shouldn't that be the windows drivers to be adapted to existing Linux
>>drivers which seems to work fine (at least with a Linux host) ?
>>
>
> maybe we'll have more sucess finding someone to make a Linux driver that works with an existing Windows driver. Better yet would be to make one that works with a standard USB class driver CDC Ethernet, iirc.
The kernel driver in the original sharp zaurus ROM required the CDC
Ether driver on the linux host side. It did require a patch to the
driver though, so i dunno if it would have worked with the standard
windows driver for CDC Ethernet.
Received on Wed Apr 17 23:59:43 2002
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