On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:24:59PM +0200, Jan Atle Ramsli wrote: > Jeff Bailey wrote: > > > Perhaps you've noticed that there have been a fair number of new > > conributors. > I have noticed a significant improvement, and it may just have coincided > with the change to L4, but I don't think it's coincidence.
I don't think it has anything to do with it. > The idea of having an API where yo can mentally picture your message go > from here to there, and what state the system is in at each of those two > points, is attractive. > I think many people have been sitting on the fence like me, chewing on a > straw, and when it started to look like fun, they jumped off and joined > in. I fail to understand what you mean here. > > Everyone who shows up seems to think they can solve the "big" > > problems. > When building a block device driver becomes a matter of sitting on the > interrupt vector and moving stuff between ports (in the sense of IN,OUT, > X, Y) and a buffer, kicking the device's rear end in xx_interrupt() or > similar in one end, and moving stuff from that buffer to and from queues > in xx_operations in the other, then, a block device is not a 'big' > problem anymore. When there is somebody who has time for this it will probably be done. But nobody has the time for drivers. You think it isn't a big problem, why didn't you do it? > It is just a matter of expressing an ADT in terms of API. Hmm? Are this new business words or something? > The hairy stuff it supposed to be in one place. > > And I see improvements, I must confess that it has been a while since I > have unpacked it, maybe I should take your response to mean that it is > time to have another look. I don't see improvements from YOU. If you don't like something change it yourself. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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