Re: New resources - pls, explain :-(

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:43:03 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
>
> Yes, but if you are going to need that boilerplate in every such driver

How many?

I don't believe there are that many at all. I believe they are extremely
rare, and probably almost exclusively in the domain of fbcon. In short, I
believe that it could be just a fbcon header file.

I refuse to overdesign. You'd better show it working _first_, and then
show me that it is actually commonly useful before I start considering it
a "supported interface" kind of issue. In the meantime, it is much better
to compartmentalize and make things modular - I don't see any reason at
all for the generic header files to care about what specific drivers do.

Linus

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