On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, David Howells wrote: > I suspect part of the problem with commercial driver support on Linux is that > the Linux driver API (such as it is) is relatively poorly documented In-kernel documentation, agreed. _Linux Device Drivers_ is a good reference for 2.2 and below. > and seems > to change almost on a week-by-week basis anyway. I've done my share of chasing > the current kernel revision with drivers that aren't part of the kernel tree: > by the time you update the driver to work with the current kernel revision, > there's a new one out, and the driver doesn't compile with it. This is entirely in your imagination. Driver APIs are stable across the stable series of kernels: 2.0.0 through 2.0.38, 2.2.0 through 2.2.18, 2.4.0 through whatever. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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