Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 1997 02:28:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer" <> | Subject | Re: NEW! Linux Kernel Configuration Manager |
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Hello David & David, ( & my other brother david ? ;-)
Mr. Howells having not had the chance to see how much of your patches are tied into 2.1.x, Is it feasable to attempt to applie them against an 2.0.x kernel ? ( Or is this just a pipe dream for right now ? )
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:18:48 +0100 > From: David Howells <dwh@nexor.co.uk> > > I now have a patch for the Linux kernel (albeit 2.1.29 at the moment) to give > the kernel a extensive configuration manager. See my web pages at: > > http://www.nexor.co.uk/~dwh/ > > for the patch and an HTML version of the manual. > also be turned into HTML using an appropriate utility (eg: texi2html). > > This is really nice work. In fact, I think the configuration manager > you have written can provide a huge step towards completely cleaning > up our device driver subsystem in the kernel. > > It should be trivial to add the necessary support for bus and dma/io > architecture specific things some other platforms (Sparc, M68k, etc.) > need. This in particular is what I like about the configuration > manager. > > ---------------------------------------------//// > Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// > 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// > ethernet. Beat that! //// > -----------------------------------------////__________ o > David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><
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