Brian (12021-08-13): > Consider a driverless car. It is not really driverless in the sense > you espouse. Otherwise it would not be going anywhere, would it? > From the point of view of the passengers and the Authorities there > isn't a human driver.
Exactly. "Driverless" uses the word "driver" as the layperson understands it: some specific piece of software you have to install in order to get a new device to work. In that sense, a brand new video controller requires a driver, but not a mouse, a USB storage stick or 5.1 speakers. I used the word "driver" in the technical sense: the piece of code in the operating system (in the widest possible sense) that makes it possible to use the device. In that sense a mouse requires the driver in hid-generic.ko, a USB storage stick requires the driver in usb-storage.ko, but speakers connected with a jack or RCA plug do not (the audio controller does, though, but it does whether there are speakers connected or not). So much bits wasted for a small remark I made between parentheses. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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