Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:42:56 +0100 | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Subject | Re: Linux drivers management |
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David Chow wrote: >> This is a classic question, by seperating out the drivers you make it >> so much harder for all developers to propagate changes into all pieces >> of the tree. > > I write drivers, never need to change kernel if the kernel API is mature > enough to provide the need of a module developer needs. There is no > reason to make changes to the kernel source, only needed because the > original kernel code is crap or the API designed without proper > software/system architectural design work effort. Each Linux kernel > version go through a lengthy beta release cycle (e.g. 2.3, 2.5, 2.7), > this shouldn't happen and idea collection should be enough through this > large Linux community.
Silly me, it was a trick question. I should have known better than to fall into that trap. See the responses you got from other people already and go check out the archives.
No even better, here's a link: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
If you still wish to argue for this, please take me off the CC list. To be honest, I don't think anyone on linux-kernel is interested in yet another round of this one.
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