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Stable interface
Stable interface
Posted Nov 10, 2005 6:43 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: Truly Free drivers could use a stable API too by elanthis
Parent article: On binary drivers and stable interfaces
There's already a stable ABI (for ia32, anyhow): it's called NDIS. It's not very satisfying. There's little reason to think a stable API would be much more satisfying, however much it also succeeded in inconveniencing proprietary-driver maintainers.
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