To add in my 2 cents, specifically is there a standard planned or in the works for loadable or statically linked in kernel drivers and subsystems? I'm new here but come from a System 5/SVR4 background where there was a DDI/DKI standard for drivers that defined a set of kernel interfaces that a driver writer could assume was always going to be there in a kernel, with the same semantics across different architectures. This permitted VARs with kernel components in their applications to code their drivers and subsystems once and not have to recode for each release.
Linux has application standards moving ahead for LSB, but I'm told that there is no such plan for a kernel driver/subsystem/module standard in LSB, and this seems contradictory. Here at Intel we ran into an issue with a driver that is produced by an Intel group being useful for only one release of a distribution (i.e. Red Hat 6.2) but could not be used with the previous point release (6.1) due to module versioning. I can't say for sure that there weren't internal kernel changes that make this necessary, but it calls out for a driver/subsystem/module standard that would at least allow a driver to work between point releases, as well as possibly extending compatibility to multiple vendor distributions running the same kernel major/minor version. Seems that if Linux is to capture more applications, part of this will have to include applications with kernel code in them. To not extend LSB to include this seems like an obvious mistake. Are their plans for this type of standard, or could there be? -----Original Message----- From: Pedro Bueno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Modules Standard. Hello, does anyone know if there is any kind of work in specification proposal to create Linux Modules. I mean, items like, for example, just rpm files, or Makefiles, or pre-compiled binaries... Thank you, Pedro Bueno -- Mr. Pedro Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bestlinux.net SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd. http://www.sot.com Narva mnt. 7A, 10117, TALLINN , ESTONIA GSM: +372 53946419 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
