On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:24:05AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 06:53:41PM -0500, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > This interpretation is, especially with regards to device drivers, > > incorrect. We are facing an uphill battle because there is a fairly bad > > kernel available where all device driver development is done. The Linux > > kernel device driver framework (as much as it exists) is a bad joke. It > > Ah, still trying hard to make friends, are we? There are some who might > point out that it's faster to rewrite drivers from scratch when needed > than to spend over a decade designing a resuable framework. Those people > might even have history on their side. Just design a good framework once and use that. You don't have to spend a decade on it. I don't see why you have to write drivers from scratch everytime. We should reuse code, it's free software. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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