Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:55:28 -0600 (CST) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... |
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, David Howells wrote: > I suspect part of the problem with commercial driver support on Linux is that > the Linux driver API (such as it is) is relatively poorly documented
In-kernel documentation, agreed.
_Linux Device Drivers_ is a good reference for 2.2 and below.
> and seems > to change almost on a week-by-week basis anyway. I've done my share of chasing > the current kernel revision with drivers that aren't part of the kernel tree: > by the time you update the driver to work with the current kernel revision, > there's a new one out, and the driver doesn't compile with it.
This is entirely in your imagination. Driver APIs are stable across the stable series of kernels: 2.0.0 through 2.0.38, 2.2.0 through 2.2.18, 2.4.0 through whatever.
Jeff
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