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Improving Linux Driver Installation (O'ReillyNet)

Improving Linux Driver Installation (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Sep 12, 2004 20:21 UTC (Sun) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
Parent article: Improving Linux Driver Installation (O'ReillyNet)

" The reason a single binary driver will not work across a kernel series is the lack of internal API and ABI (application binary interface) compatibility in the kernel. "

From the limited knowleadge i have of the matter, and from what i can understand of D-BUS...
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-dbu...
... you could extend D_BUS *down* to deal with hardware device drivers, in a way that it only need to augment the messages types (and other fearures probabily), dealed by D_BUS system to create a messaging based device driver model, similar to how I2O works, and that way pass altogether the need of a proper ABI that could take years to stabilize.

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