Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Barry deFreese
Richard Braun wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:58:57PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote: I had learning a bit about Linux 2.6 device drivers and I share of the same opinion from syn. I could see a _lot_ of work to update the glue code. My question is, update to Linux 2.6 device drivers is more fe

Re: misspellings in fsys_reply.defs ?

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! A new record in ``better late than never'' bug fixing? Five and a half years? Hmm. On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:09:50AM -0600, Austin Thompson wrote: > I checked out latest cvs today and noticed something I found odd in > hurd/hurd/fsys_reply.defs: > > simpleroutine fsys_startup_reply

rpctrace: message ids for / from Mach

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Some time ago, we added code to make GNU Mach's build system install a file containing information to enable rpctrace to translate between the rpc stub numbers to their names, `/share/msgids/gnumach.msgids'. However, it may happen (and happened to me today, so...) that this file and the ac

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Anastassios A. Nanos
at first, thank you all for you kind comments and for the time you spent reading my proposal. I will try to be as precise as possible. Something missing in this proposal is how to deal with runtime changes, especially for USB devices. that's true. there are a lot of things missing mostly

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:58:57PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote: > I had learning a bit about Linux 2.6 device drivers and I share of the same > opinion from syn. I could see a _lot_ of work to update the glue code. My > question is, update to Linux 2.6 device drivers is more feasible than write > a

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Matheus Morais
On 3/23/07, Richard Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like this proposal but I also have a question : did you consider BSD drivers ? I understand you have experience with Linux drivers, and this is a very good reason to work on a glue code for them, but from what I could see (at least this was

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:49:28AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hello Okuji and Richard! > > May I ask you to have a look at the attached email and especially the url > referenced in there, ? > This application makes a rather profound impression t

Re: GSoC libchannel project draft

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:30:53PM +0100, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > Hello again! > > I have finished writing a draft for the proposal I intend to submit to > Google Summer of Code which I have appended to this mail and I would > appreciate it if someone took their time to read it through. > >

GSoC libchannel project draft

2007-03-23 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hello again! I have finished writing a draft for the proposal I intend to submit to Google Summer of Code which I have appended to this mail and I would appreciate it if someone took their time to read it through. Since the project could basically be summed up as ``libstore for character devices'