Linux kernel compatability
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jan 3 21:14:18 UTC 2011
In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101031017110.1450 at 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.
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