Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:51:23 +0400, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:

> > On the other hand, if you file  bug report with a patch to the ebuild
> > that checks the running kernel version and outputs an elog message of
> > "you might want to try the in-kernel drivers". They may simply say
> > "thank you".
>
> The starting point has to be someone identifying the problem.

That's already been done, back in the days when this thread was still
on-topic.

> When you come e.g. to a car service and say, 'my engine is not working
> properly e.g. ignition fails or sort of', do you expect the mechanic to
> answer, 'hell why are you coming to me? you know the problem, c'mon fix
> it yourself'? Or even more of it, 'your car is what it is, you wanna
> drive -- buy a limousine for a couple hundred grands'?

That is a completely specious analogy, not least because it involves
hourly charges for fault diagnosis.

> Yes, that's it -- if you can't do it yourself, just inform someone who
> has the time and ability to fix it.

Time and ability are insufficient, there are plenty of people with those
to spare. The important factor is motivation, with enough of that you
will make enough of the other two factors. There are plenty of people who
could fix the problem, but it is not their problem and doesn't affect
them, so they spend time on things that motivate them more. That's why
the sufferer has to do at least some of the leg work themselves, and get
the satisfaction of both having the fix and having been part of it.

There is a reason this collection of "colourful characters" is called a
community.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to
eat.