Re: Discourage Uniform Driver Model?

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-09-14 at 21:38, James Clark wrote:
> 1. If it was possible to create a driver model that allowed module
> compatibility across different releases/revisions without recompilation and
> with minimal performance hit would this be desirable?

We've spent years trying to reduce the number of binary differences.
Since it involves the most basic blocks of code, choice of instructions
it isnt going to be avoidable.

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