Re: [PATCH 2/9] x86: introduce a set of platform feature flags

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jun 26 2009 - 06:47:25 EST



* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Which bit is not clear? We've been continuously 'driverizing'
> > the
>
> What do you mean by "driverizing". You keep using your made up
> word but since nobody else knows what you mean its not productive
> to have the discussion using invented terms like that.

Yeah, it's a made up shortcut for "turning previously monolithic
code into structured, driver-alike code with a driver data
structure, possible data fields and function callbacks". See the x86
examples i cited.

Ingo
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