If that's windows support, linux support is as follows:

Check /var/log messages for errors. Find cryptic bizarro language pointing to some subsystem you've never heard of. Craft messages as follows and post to Slashdot:

"Linux is terrible! I'm going back to Windows! I can't even get function XYZ to work! Every time I try, error message $ERR shows up in my /var/log/messages!"

Wait one hour before you get a response as follows:

"You moron, All you have to do to get that to go away is edit $CONFIG_FILE and restart $DAEMON! Windows sucks!"

Problem solved.

Yup, that's a face. I'd recognize one of those things anywhere.

Really... when was the last time any of us thought Cisco was the best choice for a project?

As described, It is full duplex - both sides transmit simultaneously and have to cancel their own signal and its echoes from the combined received signal. Twisted-pair Ethernet already works this way, but in the radio medium the echoes must be even more challenging to model and cancel.

How is that different from the standard IBM business model?

Combine that with this guy's work and you'll have something.

USB host controllers generally support DMA, but the drivers on the host do all the buffer management so the device cannot choose which addresses to read and write. Of course, it can take advantage of driver bugs such as the HID descriptor parsing bugs that were fixed in Linux a few years ago.

This is why I claim it's spyware. Sure, you can turn most of those things off, but the intent of turning them on by default is to capture that information from most users.

you know what I don't use every day? Debian, Do you know why? People like you. I've been using Linux for 20 years and it's people like you that get in the way of progress.

I'm not getting in the way of anything. The kernel is team-maintained and I've explained how this change can be made without my help.

Linux 3.19 is already packaged in experimental and I expect to end up maintaining a linux package in jessie-backports, so that will be another option for people who really want to use Chrome/Chromium.

I do dislike Chrome and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Aside from its being spyware (in its default configuration), the Chrome/Chromium developers have previously added requirements that make Chromium unsupportable in Debian 7. We could add this kernel feature now, but I strongly doubt that will be sufficient to keep Chrome/Chromium running on Debian 8 until its EOL.

Please note that I am not NAKing the change, but I'm also not going to be the one to make it happen.

Path Intelligence (reference)

"When it breaks, you're fucked", just like anything you run as pid 1. Except you can still use the init= command line parameters to run something different (or possibly break= to stop in the initramfs).

"Obsoletes 20-30 years ... of how to use linux tools". Huh, I must have my Linux history wrong as I could have sworn it was started in 1991.

"No real new features" because all its new features, are somehow not real according to some AC?

"Virtually untested" except by every major distribution?

Insightful, my arse.

or have a problem with it randomly flipping to headphones on loud parts on another machine

Because obviously broken jack detection is the fault of the daemon, not the hardware or sound driver.

See, I have the opposite view. I like to have all my movements recorded and tracked so if I get falsely accused of something, I have an alibi I can reference.

"No, Detective, I was not in that alley when Joe Blow was killed. I was at Starbucks getting a latte. Here's my credit card record to prove it."

I've had Google Wallet on my Nexus 4 since 2012. I used it for like a month, until the novelty wore off. It's just plain easier to open my wallet, grab a credit card, and swipe it through the reader than it is to get out my phone, unlock, find the wallet app, unlock fumble with the NFC scanner that doesn't always work, hope I have a decent server connection, and etc. I found that 7 out of 10 times I tried to use it, I wound up putting my phone away and digging out my wallet just to avoid pissing off all the other people in line behind me.