Novell Delivers Device Driver Breakthrough

An anonymous reader writes "Novell today announced a new Linux device driver process to make it easier for third party device driver writers to integrate their drivers with SUSE Linux." From the article: "The new driver process allows customers to obtain drivers independently of Novell® kernel updates and supplies a straightforward approach third parties can use when developing device drivers for Novell's SUSE® Linux Enterprise products. The new Linux driver process developed by Novell allows hardware and software vendors to provide Linux drivers and driver updates for their products to customers directly and transparently, in a way that is completely integrated with SUSE Linux Enterprise delivery and support."

No need for Suse Linux

[bizzynut]

Plan 9 offers everything you would expect from a modern desktop OS. So there is no need for Suse Linux.

Looks like an update to YaST.

[khasim]

From what I can see (too much marketing crap), it looks like they have an option in YaST to add an ISV's repository.

So, the ISV builds a package for their module and sets the dependencies and YaST allows you to update the module/kernel without breaking the dependencies.

Not much of an accomplishment at all (if that is all there is to it). Which would explain why they resorted to so much marketing crap in their announcement.

a new Linux device driver process

[special_agent]

a new Linux device driver process

Sounds more like a new marketing process.