From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vojtech Pavlik Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:10:08 +0000 Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:02:02PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Device drivers can be viewed as adapters between namespaces: > > loading a device driver may cause entries in other namespaces. > > This is the most theoretical way I have ever heard device drivers described > :-) But also a very exact one. Current namespaces (buses) include usb pci isapnp input serio gameport char block scsi net and others ... There are many types of these 'adapters', for example a PCI gameport driver for the Live! soundcard is pci->gameport, the mousedev module is input->char, then there is for example the ohci driver which is pci->usb, or the a3d is gameport->input+gameport. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel