Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:31:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ben LaHaise <> |
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> There simply is no standard API for 64-bit DAC, sorry. > > This isn't changing in 2.4.x, please face facts. It simply is not > a feature of 2.4.x, and we are well beyond feature freeze now. > > It is certainly changing in 2.5.x which is just around the corner.
Sorry, but that's not a good enough answer if 2.5 takes the same 2 years that 2.3 took. Define the API so that people can at least write their drivers to the spec, or else suffer the consequences of people doing their own thing.
-ben
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