Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

On Dec 14 2006 10:56, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
>
>A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells
>100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would
>now like to make his cards work with Linux. He has two driver programmers
>with little experience in writing Linux kernel drivers. What do you tell him?
>Write a large kernel module from scratch? Completely rewrite his code 
>because it uses floating point arithmetics?

They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my.


	-`J'
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