Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 04/01/2009 12:55:10 PM:
> On 4/1/09 11:36 AM, "Kirk Wolf" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What about GPL-licensed code using proprietary (closed) instructions and > > hipervisor features (DIAG, etc)? > > Aren't micro/millicode and zVM hipervisor vectors "the new OCO" with > > respect to Linux and Solaris on z? > > Thus the complete lack of comments in the QDIO code in Linux and the minimal > formatting. Just this side of closed-source. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 I work on channel firmware. I haven't looked at the zfcp/qeth/cio code, but I have some experience writing linux device drivers. In my experiences, I have found that comments in the linux kernel are sparse everywhere. Are there really less comments in this code than other parts of the kernel? Ray Higgs System z FCP Development Bld. 706, B24 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 435-8666, T/L 295-8666 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
