From: jgarzik@pobox.com (Jeff Garzik)
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Q: MTD and NIC Roms...
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:47:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030213064745.GA31364@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1045117753.9349.22.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk>
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:29:13AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 06:14, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > And I think that's the best place for it. We _could_ bloat up the
> > kernel code by adding the ability flash -- but how many users is that
> > going to serve, that are not already served by existing programs? So, I
> > disagree with getting this stuff into the kernel at all.
>
> I see your point, but OTOH that it's under a separate config option and
> it's actually a _tiny_ amount of code.
>
> And we all know that hardware drivers don't live in userspace.
ATM all users are using an existing userspace tools, so
this would be a CONFIG_EEPRO100_ERIC_BIEDERMAN option. No thanks :)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-13 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-13 5:45 Q: MTD and NIC Roms Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-13 6:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-13 6:29 ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-13 6:47 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-02-13 7:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-14 0:33 ` yxh
2003-02-20 3:05 ` 邹应双
2003-02-13 18:34 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-02-13 6:27 ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-13 7:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-06 20:20 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-04-08 11:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
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