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Subject: Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch
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In message: <87ab37ab0605301826j92e3f6gaed3ba75c039fe33@mail.gmail.com>
            "william wallace" <avalonwallace@gmail.com> writes:
: BTW :my current code is mainly translate the pcie natve hotplug from
: linux , not from the spec ,and encapsulate the BSD pci config function
: with the linux-alike interface , i wonder if i am walking the right
: way ,

If the code is Linux, then we can't integrate it into the kernel
because we can't have GPL'd code in the kernel, per project policy.

Warner