Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Linux, UDI and SCO. | Date | 21 Sep 1998 06:36:15 GMT |
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Followup to: <6u4amt$ifv@pell.pell.portland.or.us> By author: o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Which is good, because the UDI interface is likely to remain frozen > and thus a driver that's written against a 2.0.x UDI interface will > continue to work when the kernel is revved to 4.0. This is an > unqualified Good Thing, because it means that device driver writers > don't have to either (a) maintain their drivers forever to keep up > with kernel interface drift or (b) hope that if they lose interest > someone else will have enough interest to maintain the driver > forever to keep up with kernel interface drift. >
It's not an *unqualified* good thing: the extra layer *will* come at a (performance) cost.
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