On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:43:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Laughter was not wholly unexpected, though I wasn't joking. I'm trying > > to be realistic about the lifetime of any given hardware, and IOC4 is > > several years old at this point. Couple that with a sincere desire to > > preserve application source compatability when (not if) new hardware > > appears, and an abstraction layer seemed to be a logical choice. I'm > > more than happy to discuss problems in the abstraction layer's interface > > and make appropriate changes -- I'm nothing if not obliging. > > Having an abstraction layer for a single client driver does seem a bit > pointless. It would become more pointful if other client drivers were to > pop up.
The Octane port will hopefully soon support external inteerupts on the ioc3, so this does make sense. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/