Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

Grok Mogger writes:
Is it safe to say that drivers are really for a chipset, not a device?
And so therefore, support for a device really boils down to "is the
chipset supported?" not "is the device supported"?

Fairly safe.
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John Hasler


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