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SubjectRe: Binary drivers
DateWed, 08 Dec 1999 19:33:47 -0500
From"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <>
In message <19991208174036.A23357@xfiles.nildram.co.uk>, David Taylor writes:
+-----
| > Eventually there comes a time when you can remove the old interfaces
| > when they are no longer desirable for maintanance reasons.
| They are no longer desirable for maintanance reasons the moment they are
| made obsolete. Currently they can be removed almost immediately, after the
| drivers in the source tree have been changed to work with the new interface.
+--->8

How about open-source stuff that *isn't* shipped with the kernel? (VMware's
drivers (?), iBCS (not that it accesses drivers directly --- I think), etc.)

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