Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [OT] RE: UDI and Free Software | Date | Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:39:08 +0100 (BST) |
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> it lacks stuff like check_region that is central to the Linux philosophy. > UDI on Linux would also be useless for parallel scanners - UDI can't > describe talking to the parport management layer > > Exactly. So you'd have to do an extra memory copy in the Linux<->UDI > interface layer. It'll be slow, but you an make it work. See my > previous comments about UDI always being a poor second cousin to real > native drivers.....
It isnt a case of extra copies. Its fundamentally impossible for a UDI driver to access the parallel port under Linux because there is no UDI speak for 'parport_*' calls which you _have_ to make. There are numerous other examples like that.
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