Re: Open letter to the UDI folks?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:22:23 +0100 (BST)


> If the Linux community would concentrate on _just_ making the UDI
> support layer robust, Linux could focus on capably exploiting
> whatever drivers come from whatever sources.
>
> GPL the UDI support layer module, but leave it out of the
> official kernel sources, so that vendors aren't left to think
> that just providing a UDI driver gets them of the hook for
> "real" Linux support.

Having been through the entire current UDI documentation there are two
problems with your great suggestion

1. The documentation is currently so tattered and incomplete you
couldnt do it. It only claims to be a draft so thats quite
understandable.

2. There is probably 6 to 8 weeks work to get it even going. You
would need to hack up the linux memory allocator to make it work
at all. The way descriptor blocks are passed is going to make
networking using such devices crawl.

Its too big a job to be worth doing. I 6 to 8 weeks solid work I can
probably write 3 or 4 drivers

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