On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course it can load that way. That is modules are. The problem is that > modules are so intimatley connected with the kernel that a module for > kernel A in general does not have the right entry points for Kernel B. > > This is the price of high performance that one wants from kernel space > drivers. Indeed this is THE problem, and I call it lack of ABI definition. Regarding speed - I do not think there should be a significant penalty. It's all about predefined jump table entries and data structures to pass data to/from driver - I hardly see an overhead here. _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
