In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Takahashi Yoshihiro
 writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Cbus is to ISA as CardBus is to PCI in many ways.  Cbus is very much
>> like ISA in all but a few details.  CardBus is pci with a few twists
>> and turns that differ.  If you look at how we've implemented cardbus,
>> you'll see that we've tried to do it as a 'subclass' of the pci bus.
>> We implement the PCI interfaces in the cardbus bus code, even though
>> it is not really a pci bus.  I'd propose that cbus implements the ISA
>> interfaces in a similar manner.
>
>If my understanding is not a mistake, the CardBus specifications is
>derived from the PCI.  Therefore, I can understand that the cardbus
>driver depend on the pci driver.  But, the Cbus is NOT derived from
>the ISA.  So, I think that the cbus driver should not depend on the
>isa driver.

This increasingly sounds like an emotional thing rather than a
technical thing :-(

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