Re: [OT] RE: UDI and Free Software

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:50:28 +0100 (BST)


> to native drivers... For some hardware it may not make a difference
> (for example, a scanner). But for other hardware (such as a gigabit
> ethernet board), my guess is that UDI will be a disaster as far as
> performance is concerned.

UDI has no concept of other interface libraries or access API's - so
it lacks stuff like check_region that is central to the Linux philosophy.
UDI on Linux would also be useless for parallel scanners - UDI can't
describe talking to the parport management layer

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