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    SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19
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    Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 18:02 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
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    > 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.

    To be honest, I never really understood where kernel space starts and user space
    ends in Windows, so I'm not sure about this :-)

    Hans

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