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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:10:10 -0500
From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: binary drivers and development
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:24:15 -0500, John Richard Moser
<nigelenki@comcast.net> 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.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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