From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kevin K <k_krieser@sbcglobal.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver model.. expel legacy drivers?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:51:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45317814.8000709@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160870637.5732.46.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Sad, 2006-10-14 am 17:44 -0400, ysgrifennodd John Richard Moser:
>> Yeah, a static code coverage analyzer or some sort of code-reducer would
>> be nice; these are in general pipe dreams but eh. Also these are
>> compressed bzip2 tarball sizes, not compiled kernel sizes or source tree
>> sizes. I would imagine a 100MB bzip2 would turn into something quite
>> large; the major issue is the amount of work it takes to maintain
>> something like that.
>
> It's not actually clear that you can sensibly evaluate trends like that
> or the maintainability. Take a look at the flamewar the day the kernel
> tarball stopped fitting on one floppy disk (1.44MB)
>
I was using something called DOS back then I think....
> Things ceasing to be maintained and exiting the kernel is a two step
> process and there is a lot in the "waiting for someone to rescue it"
> stage that probably has no remaining users. At some point nor far away
> there is going to be a big flush of drivers when ISA bus is dropped.
>
WOW that means I'll lose networking on my other machine, which uses a
D-Link on an ISA bus to power a Pentium 200MHz with MMX technology.
> Microsoft are also being very helpful. They are making it harder and
> harder for people to use drivers not microsoft-signed which in turns
> pushes up costs for development and as a result encourages more
> standardization of driver interfaces to take place.
huh?
>
> Alan
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-14 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-14 3:18 Driver model.. expel legacy drivers? John Richard Moser
2006-10-14 7:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-14 11:19 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-10-14 15:04 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-14 18:54 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-10-14 20:48 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-15 15:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-14 21:14 ` Kevin K
2006-10-14 21:44 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-15 0:03 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-14 23:51 ` John Richard Moser [this message]
2006-10-15 1:24 ` Kevin K
2006-10-15 1:51 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-10-15 14:33 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-16 9:39 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-10-16 14:13 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-16 19:04 ` Lennart Sorensen
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