Re: frames for drivers (net(-protocol stack)/scsi/sound/etc. modules etc.)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:01:26 +0000 (GMT)


> subject-line) and all, wouldn't it be nice to have frameworks
> available so that companies and others can focus more on the
> driving of the hardware itself instead of all around it?

We do have those in effect. The general approach with a GPL driver is
to cut bits out of other drivers and put them together with your hardware
code. The i2o scsi driver for example I did by cutting up the symbios
53c416 driver and then adding pieces from the qlogicfc driver. Very little
of it is "new" code.

Alan

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