Brent Casavant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Here is a set of patches that implements an external interrupt capability > > > in Linux, along with a device driver for a specific hardware device. I > > > submitted the patches several weeks ago, and they drew no comments, which > > > I take to be a good sign. Anyway, I'm > > It was not good sign in this particular case. My reaction was "this is _so_ > > overengineered tjat he's probably joking". > > Laughter was not wholly unexpected, though I wasn't joking. I'm trying > to be realistic about the lifetime of any given hardware, and IOC4 is > several years old at this point. Couple that with a sincere desire to > preserve application source compatability when (not if) new hardware > appears, and an abstraction layer seemed to be a logical choice. I'm > more than happy to discuss problems in the abstraction layer's interface > and make appropriate changes -- I'm nothing if not obliging.
Having an abstraction layer for a single client driver does seem a bit pointless. It would become more pointful if other client drivers were to pop up. Hence an option would be to merge an IOC4-specific driver which just does what you need, no abstraction layer. If someone later comes up with a requirement for a driver for similar-looking hardware then we can resurrect the abstraction layer at that stage. - 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/
