Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 May 2009 12:16:41 -0600 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [RFQ] New driver architecture questions |
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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:03:39PM -0600, Mukker, Atul wrote: > > The solution to "We have some people who speak French and other people who > > speak German" is not to invent Esperanto ;-) > [Atul] We really wish they could communicate in English :-), since that's not an option, we agree in principle that using native Linux Kernel APIs wherever possible is probably a good idea.
I'd stick to the C APIs where possible ... oh, that's what Linux does. OK ;-)
> > Using one or the other internally is fine (we don't care what you do), > > but we want to see memcpy(). By the way, the documentation I found for > > ScsiPortMoveMemory() seems to indicate that it's memmove(), not memcpy(). > > Mapping memcpy() to ScsiPortMoveMemory() is fine ... but you can't > > realiably go the other way. > [Atul] It's actually memcpy(),http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms805434.aspx
No, it's memmove(). "The (ReadBuffer + Length) can overlap the area pointed to by WriteBuffer."
-- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."
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