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This is true but

Drivers are *FAR* more incompatible between Linux kernel
versions than between Windows kernel versions (discounting the
Win98 / Win NT series incompatibility).

The solution would be (assuming the kernel maintainers will
never keep a constant ABI) to have

/dev/unidriver/char/device0
/dev/unidriver/block/device0

and so on, and these devices to go through a standard Linux
driver shim (say 'unidriver.o') that called drivers where the ABI
was always the same.
If you implemented this unidriver on all the different kernel
versions (and FreeBSD, OpenBSD etc etc, perhaps even Windows)
then you could move a binary driver between all the above and it
still work.

Posted by: hipparchus2000   Posted on: 05/07/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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