On Saturday 17 February 2007 15:19, David Schwartz wrote: > Static Controls argued that taking the TLP was the only practical way to > make a cartridge that would work with that printer.
Which shows how that case is different from writing Linux drivers. For example, looking at the example the OP was himself proposing a few alternative approaches to work around the limitation they were hitting: could just switch to static major/minors instead of dynamics ones, they could skip sysfs, or they could even reimplement something like sysfs themselves, or whatever other interface they deem useful for the purpose of plopping in their own binary blob on top of it, sort of like what nVidia and ATi do for their stuff. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta - 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/
