linux-kernel - RE: [RFQ] New driver architecture questions

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Message-ID: <6C678488C5CEE74F813A4D1948FD2DC7A96C7789@cosmail02.lsi.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 May 2009 08:56:25 -0600
From:	"Mukker, Atul" <Atul.Mukker@....com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
CC:	adam radford <aradford@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Austria, Winston" <Winston.Austria@....com>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFQ] New driver architecture questions

>>
> >> Perhaps this is a bad example?  It seems like the "common layer"
> >> sections that are "cross-OS" shouldn't contain any Linux specific code
> at all.
> >
> > I think the implication is that the cross-OS parts are coded, as it
> > happens, in the linux coding style, using linux functions, but then a
> > Windows layer maps these to Windows specific functions.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
> 
[Atul] I think we are close, for example, memcpy API in the stack is osi_memcpy(), which translates to memcpy() on Linux and ScsiPortMoveMemory() on windows.

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