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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 00:35 +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote:
> And isn't driver writing a bit of kernel hacking anyway? As far as I 
> know, you have to be very aware of kernel issues/internals when writing 
> a driver...

Ideally, not at all.  For example ALSA provides a very clean API for
driver writers.  If you know your hardware you could implement a driver
in a few days.

http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/

Lee