From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] x86: introduce a set of platform feature flags
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:47:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090626104703.GA12446@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090626111731.539f963e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Which bit is not clear? We've been continuously 'driverizing'
> > the
>
> What do you mean by "driverizing". You keep using your made up
> word but since nobody else knows what you mean its not productive
> to have the discussion using invented terms like that.
Yeah, it's a made up shortcut for "turning previously monolithic
code into structured, driver-alike code with a driver data
structure, possible data fields and function callbacks". See the x86
examples i cited.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-26 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-26 0:14 [PATCH 2/9] x86: introduce a set of platform feature flags Pan, Jacob jun
2009-06-26 7:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 9:14 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 10:17 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26 10:47 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-06-26 11:41 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26 15:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 19:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-26 19:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-30 6:32 ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-02 23:09 ` Pan, Jacob jun
2009-07-02 23:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
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