Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
21 Sep 1998 06:36:15 GMT
Followup to: <6u4amt$ifv@pell.pell.portland.or.us>
By author: o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Which is good, because the UDI interface is likely to remain frozen
> and thus a driver that's written against a 2.0.x UDI interface will
> continue to work when the kernel is revved to 4.0. This is an
> unqualified Good Thing, because it means that device driver writers
> don't have to either (a) maintain their drivers forever to keep up
> with kernel interface drift or (b) hope that if they lose interest
> someone else will have enough interest to maintain the driver
> forever to keep up with kernel interface drift.
>
It's not an *unqualified* good thing: the extra layer *will* come at a
(performance) cost.
-hpa
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