Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:35:29 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Kernel support for peer-to-peer protection models... |
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Hi!
> > > > If most changes are in arch/, it should be acceptable... > > > > > > I fear that it might be more extensive than that :-) > > > > Well, make patch and lets see... That means that 2.8 needs to be your > > target. If impact outside of arch is not "total rewrite", you might > > have a chance. If it is "total rewrite".... well you just need to be > > very clever. > > How badly would the average driver break if it did not have direct data > access to kernal data structures? Calls into the kernel and direct access by > the called functions are OK.
Kernel likes to pass it pointers to internal data structures. And drivers will walk over pointers in those structures pretty often.
Actually I'm not so sure. Perhaps for simple drivers something like that would be possible..
Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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