From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>,
pavel@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] external interrupts
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:57:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050823095741.GB4425@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050822144330.791ba7b3.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:43:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Laughter was not wholly unexpected, though I wasn't joking. I'm trying
> > to be realistic about the lifetime of any given hardware, and IOC4 is
> > several years old at this point. Couple that with a sincere desire to
> > preserve application source compatability when (not if) new hardware
> > appears, and an abstraction layer seemed to be a logical choice. I'm
> > more than happy to discuss problems in the abstraction layer's interface
> > and make appropriate changes -- I'm nothing if not obliging.
>
> Having an abstraction layer for a single client driver does seem a bit
> pointless. It would become more pointful if other client drivers were to
> pop up.
The Octane port will hopefully soon support external inteerupts on the
ioc3, so this does make sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-23 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-19 21:55 Brent Casavant
2005-08-20 22:21 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-22 21:27 ` Brent Casavant
2005-08-22 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-22 22:17 ` Brent Casavant
2005-08-23 9:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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2005-07-28 21:13 Brent Casavant
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