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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:51:06 +1000
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On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:34, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Sure, but all that copying-and-pasting really sucks.  I'm sure there's
> > some way of providing the slightly different semantics from the same
> > codebase?
>
> Careful - you've almost reinvented the concept of library, which would
> violate any number of patents...

I will keep my eyes open for library candidates as I go.  For example, the 
binary blob operations really cry out for it.

Regards,

Daniel