From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jimwclark@ntlworld.com
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Discourage Uniform Driver Model?
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:11:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063577498.2472.3.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309142138.32222.jimwclark@ntlworld.com>
On Sul, 2003-09-14 at 21:38, James Clark wrote:
> 1. If it was possible to create a driver model that allowed module
> compatibility across different releases/revisions without recompilation and
> with minimal performance hit would this be desirable?
We've spent years trying to reduce the number of binary differences.
Since it involves the most basic blocks of code, choice of instructions
it isnt going to be avoidable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-14 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-13 23:27 James Clark
2003-09-13 23:45 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-09-14 20:38 ` James Clark
2003-09-14 21:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-14 22:11 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-09-15 23:13 ` Discourage Uniform Driver Model James Clark
2003-09-15 23:26 ` Tim Hockin
2003-09-16 14:01 ` Timothy Miller
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