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From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> I would prefer that zerocopy code remain out of all official kernels
> until zerocopy itself is in said kernels.  It's experimental code that
> simply cannot work in its present form, due to lack of infrastructure in
> the general kernel.  And being based on experimental code itself, there
> is definitely the potential for changes yet.

Fine.

> BTW, I would suggest looking at Jes' acenic.c as an example of a 2.4
> driver that is clean but also [hopefully!] works under 2.2.

The *only* thing I couldn't solve cleanly is the MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT 
vs MODULE_SET_OWNER(). And I would really appreciate pointers for that. :)

Ion

-- 
  It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool,
            than to open it and remove all doubt.

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