On Sul, 2004-09-05 at 23:11, Jon Smirl wrote: > What is the advantage to continuing a development model where two > groups of programmers work independently, with little coordination on > two separate code bases trying to simultaneously control the same > piece of hardware? This is a continuous source of problems. Why can't > we fix the development model to stop this?
I don't see that as much of a problem. The mess arises from some simple lacks in the objects in kernel and the methods required to co-ordinate. Lots of drivers are written by a lot of people in the kernel and they work just fine. The ext3 authors don't spend their lives co-ordinating with SCSI driver authors, they just get the API right. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel