> You're saying that there's no other way to interface device drivers to > an operating system than the current Linux driver model?
Interfacing an X1900 graphics card to FreeBSD and interfacing an X1900 graphics card to Linux are two different ideas. They are *not* two expressions of the same idea. > That's > strange, since it's a different driver model than Linux had > previously, and it's also different from the BeOS driver interface, > etc. If the Linux driver interface is protectable, it doesn't seem > like scenes a faire applies. These are all diferent ideas. Scenes a faire applies to how you express a given idea, not other ideas you could possibly express. (This is explicitly addressed in the decision.) Otherwise, there would be no scenes a faire. Perhaps you cannot make a western without a shootout at high noon, but you can make a romance. DS - 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/
