From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:40:53 +0200
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Faisal Latif <faisal.la...@intel.com> wrote: > >> We can certainly take up the discussion on improving the current port mapper >> design/implementation. But >> that would be more appropriate in a separate thread. > > If we observe a kernel API / mechanism which could be wrongly > duplicated between two drivers, and now a new driver comes to town > with C&P-ing this -- why not stopping and thinking before rushing to > get the 3rd duplication upstream? Yes, this really looks like a huge disaster. People have to stop doing unique APIs in their drivers, especially when equivalent functionality exists generically.
