Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Chubb <> | Date | Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:59:21 +1100 | Subject | Re: binary drivers and development |
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>>>>> "John" == John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net> writes:
John> I've done more thought, here's a small list of advantages on John> using binary drivers, specifically considering UDI. You can John> consider a different implementation for binary drivers as well, John> with most of the same advantages.
Almost all these advantages are also present for user-mode drivers... and getting drivers out of the kernel, where possible, is a much better approach IMHO than trying to maintain a leaky in-kernel interface. The problem with in-kernel interfaces, even if set in concrete, is that any binary driver can go outside the interface --- there's no encapsulation --- and so break when the kernel changes.
Peter C
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