Re: Device Driver

From: jmcmullan@linuxcare.com
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 23:52:20 EST

H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
> Ok, yes now I get it. Yes, this is stupid.

> Anyone here have any experience with SmartMedia and if they are sane or
> stupid?

        I wrote the SmartMedia FlashPath driver, and I can
say that the SmartMedia is fine, but the FlashPath is a
little silly. (And I sometimes feel very bad for what
I was forced to write due to NDA and time constraints)..

        (See my post on C++ kernel modules....)
        (and evil sys_mount() syscall overloading...)
        (and evil /dev/fd0 driver overloading...)
        (basically this driver is an example of what NOT to
         allow in a mainline kernel... but had to be written
         that way to comply with marketing...)

        http://www.smartdisk.com/Downloads/Software/flashpath-0.2.1.tar.gz 

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