From: Greg KH <gr...@kr...> - 2010-01-11 21:10:54
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:52:09PM +0100, François Revol wrote: > Now, of course it doesn't mean it's better in design, though OTH having > Linux break their API every week certainly doesn't mean it's better in > design. > Actually the lack of a proper Device Driver Interface in Linux is > really painful. Just see the Linux glue in OpenSound... Haiku still > supports BeOS drivers, yet has gained bluetooth and wifi stacks, so it > doesn't preclude evolution. > > Keeping old cruft is not always good, but throwing the baby with the > bathtub everytime isn't either. It's a trade-off, that the Linux developers are well aware of. For now, we feel the benefits of a constantly-moving-internal-api is much better than the alternative. Given that we support more devices than any other operating system ever has in the history of computing, we feel our method is working pretty well so far :) thanks, greg k-h |