Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Apr 2001 22:21:11 +0200 | From | (Gunther Mayer) | Subject | Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (serial+parport) |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Tim Waugh wrote: > > It would allow support for new multi-IO cards to generally be the > > addition of about two lines to two files (which is currently how it's > > done), rather than having separate mutant hybrid monstrosity drivers > > for each card (IMHO).. > > ;-) > > My point of view is that hacking the kernel so that two device drivers > can pretend they are not driving the same hardware is silly. With such > hardware there are always inter-dependencies, and you can either hack > special case code into two or more drivers, or create one central > control point from which knowledge is dispatched. Like I mentioned in a
My point of view is making it easy for the average user. This is the same as making it easy for maintainers of hardware drivers !
More module interdependencies == More complicated == More clueless users
Many users will be surprised if they must load another module (e.g."pci_multiio") to get their parallel and serial ports working.
Thus _must not_ happen in the stable release.
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