Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: frames for drivers (net(-protocol stack)/scsi/sound/etc. modules etc.) | Date | Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:01:26 +0000 (GMT) |
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> subject-line) and all, wouldn't it be nice to have frameworks > available so that companies and others can focus more on the > driving of the hardware itself instead of all around it?
We do have those in effect. The general approach with a GPL driver is to cut bits out of other drivers and put them together with your hardware code. The i2o scsi driver for example I did by cutting up the symbios 53c416 driver and then adding pieces from the qlogicfc driver. Very little of it is "new" code.
Alan
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