Quote of the week
Posted Dec 17, 2004 13:07 UTC (Fri) by
mrshiny (subscriber, #4266)
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Quote of the week by mbp
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Quote of the week
You're right, a driver written for 2.6.10 might not work on 2.6.4. But
the thing about a stable API is that people could write drivers for 2.6.0
and it would work on 2.6.10; that's what would happen in practice if
vendors were trying to support a large number of linux users. Driver
writers could make the choice about what they want to support, based on
their users's needs, and write to that API. They could pick a version,
and know that from that version on, the driver will work, until 2.8 comes
out. With the current model, a driver written for 2.6.x may not work for
2.6.x-1 or 2.6.x+1.
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