Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:56:39 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux kernel compatability Message-ID: <82826.1294088199@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:31:24 -1000." <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101031017110.1450@desktop>
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In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101031017110.1450@desktop>, Jeff Roberson writes: >I have seen that some attempt at similar wrappers has been made elsewhere. >I wonder if instead of making each one tailored to individual components, >which mostly seem to be filesystems so far, should we put this in a >central place under compat somewhere? My inflation devalued $0.02: We should face our NIH syndrome and for those differences between Linux and FreeBSD KPI which are purely a naming or trivial argument difference, try to reduce the differences. Those where there are substantial differences, we should only have one compat layer, not one for each driver. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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