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ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community

ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community

Posted Apr 22, 2008 14:41 UTC (Tue) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
In reply to: ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community by michaeljt
Parent article: ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community

We have a lot of cross-pollination between Linux and the BSDs, the people developing for each
O.S. can read the other's source code just fine.

Granted, you can't always re-use the code itself, but that *really* isn't what matters most,
especially for drivers.  In fact, it is best if things remain as they are.  We get better code
quality and a much higher degree of freedom to change interfaces that way.

The really precious information (how to talk to the hardware) is already shareable among all
since the code is open anyway.  That's the only thing that matters.


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