Re: Why linux is so stupid with hardware drivers?

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 05/10/04

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    Date: 09 May 2004 22:32:27 GMT

    In article <qDunc.65653$Xj6.1109341@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Norm Dresner wrote:

    > But the absolute worst part of LDD [Linux Device Driver] writing is that
    > there's no backward-compatibility built into the kernel and the API for
    > identically-named functions can change between major versions.

    Minor versions even. I've seen entire kernel subsystems ripped out and
    replaced with something completely incompatible between _minor_ versions of
    released, _stable_ kernels. If you think that doesn't completely screw
    over the commercial HW vendors that are trying to support Linux, then you're
    dreaming. 

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