Re: binary drivers and development

From: Jon Smirl
Date: Fri Mar 11 2005 - 11:15:07 EST


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:24:15 -0500, John Richard Moser
<nigelenki@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I've done more thought, here's a small list of advantages on using
> binary drivers, specifically considering UDI. You can consider a
> different implementation for binary drivers as well, with most of the
> same advantages.

Think about the impact the evolution of devfs and sysfs have on the
driver model. They are still evolving. Or the 32 to 64 bit impact on
ioctl's.

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Jon Smirl
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