From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
To: James Clark <jimwclark@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Discourage Uniform Driver Model?
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:45:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030913234539.GC27151@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309140027.08610.jimwclark@ntlworld.com>
* James Clark (jimwclark@ntlworld.com) wrote:
> If it was possible to create a driver model that allowed module compatibility
> across different releases/revisions without recompilation and with minimal
> performance hit would this be desirable?
>
> If such a model was possible should development be avoided to discourage
> binary only modules?
I would argue that is exactly the situation seen by XFree with quite a
few cards requiring binary modules for full functionality.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-13 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-13 23:27 Discourage Uniform Driver Model? James Clark
2003-09-13 23:45 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2003-09-14 20:38 ` James Clark
2003-09-14 21:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-14 22:11 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 23:13 ` Discourage Uniform Driver Model James Clark
2003-09-15 23:26 ` Tim Hockin
2003-09-16 14:01 ` Timothy Miller
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