Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:14:18 +0200 | | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | | Subject | Re: Standard for module delivery |
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On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:24:20PM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote: > My problem is that I (my employer included) support Linux drivers for our > various boards. Hell, we start there and do NT later, when development > is stabilized. I write module-only drivers (Linux and NT) and I see no > reason to expect the linux source tar bundle to include my driver. > > However, that leads me to the problem of how to properly and portably make > binary and source rpms, not to mention makefiles.
Ted Ts'o did a paper on this for Linux Expo 99; if you have the Proceedings it's pages 241 to 252. Unfortunately I don't see a URL on there for an online version of the paper.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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