Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Linux, UDI and SCO. | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 05:32:05 +0100 (BST) |
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> Again, Sun, SCO, etc. expect us to write UDI drivers for them. If the
Which is strange. There is no point writing a UDI driver for Linux. Its much easier and faster to write a GPL'd driver optimised for the OS and using code thats already there. So few driver vendors have realised in advance what the GPL means in that respect.
The ability to write a driver by saying "its sort of like this one so I'll copy it and fill in the blanks" is something people just aren't used to.
In terms of UDI there is a much better thing than UDI support. Thats providing clean documentation explaining how to turn a UDI driver into a nice fast efficient Linux driver giving a list of equivalent functions etc.
Alan
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