Re: Universal Driver Interface spec available

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:20:09 -0400

Bret Indrelee wrote:
> If you see something wrong, you should point it out. I know that there will
> be another revision of the spec, they still need to work out all of the
> bridge mechanics as well as a few other issues.

Then why was a "1.0 final" spec released?

> The drivers in UDI do not do mutexs. If anything, it should make things
> perform better on a real time system than they used to.

So UDI drivers break on SMP systems? Or will Linux UDI lock the entire
kernel while its doing its work?

Jeff

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