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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2005-03@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: "new" word
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:25:46 +0000
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fabio de francesco wrote:

> Thomas Lotze wrote:
>
> I think it's a conscious choice not to specify the Linux ABI.
> Something about binary-only drivers being discouraged...
>
> This is not true.

<beatles>Yes it is.</beatles>

> Device drivers can be dinamically loaded as
> binaries, provided they conforms to some kind od Linux Kernel-ABI

Which does not exist.

> for
> kernel loadable modules and they must use some exported kernel
> functions (like init_module() and cleanup_module()).

And their internally used data structures must match the kernel ones.
And because /this/ is version dependent there is a problem.


Vinzent.

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