Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Binary drivers | | Date | Wed, 08 Dec 1999 19:33:47 -0500 | | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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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.)
-- brandon s. allbery os/2,linux,solaris,perl allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator kthkrb,heimdal,gnome,rt allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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