From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Graeme Sheppard <nodes@rillion.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patent or not patent a new idea
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:33:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18048.38684.330100.529424@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Graeme Sheppard on Tuesday June 26
On Tuesday June 26, nodes@rillion.net wrote:
>
> Thanks for the brief howto there. I'll install the mdadm suite and
> experiment. It seems like a userspace driver?
mdadm is a userspace tool for managing the 'md' driver which is in the
linux kernel.
> > I don't know what you mean by '2'.
>
> 2 meant in the way that a driver for a PC raid card is not much use on
> a Sparc.
Ahh... That is one of the great things about Linux. You code in C,
and the driver works on every architecture (providing you are
reasonably careful, and the arch actually supports the hardware). :-)
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 4:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-25 21:45 Patent or not patent a new idea Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-25 22:04 ` alan
2007-06-25 22:26 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-25 22:33 ` alan
2007-06-25 22:34 ` Attila Kinali
2007-06-25 22:37 ` manningc2
2007-06-26 0:11 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-26 1:32 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-26 2:20 ` Neil Brown
2007-06-26 3:20 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-26 3:38 ` Neil Brown
2007-06-26 4:22 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-26 4:33 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-06-26 16:53 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-26 17:38 ` Andreas Dilger
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