linux-kernel - Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

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Date:	Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:33:28 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mathiasen@...il.com
Subject: Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
>  > Obviously, anyone who adheres to the published interface can use one
>  > of these VID:DIDs -- as far as I'm concerned, even hardware vendors;
>  > we'll use the SID to distinguish between implementations.
> 
> I think for this to work, some attempt at a conformance testing
> program is required...
> 

How would you propose one goes about that?  It seems to me the only 
plausible thing is "does it work with the unmodified driver included in 
the Linux kernel?"  What else can one realistically do?

	-hpa
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