Re: New kernel/resource.c

Tom Leete (tleete@access.mountain.net)
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 04:38:58 -0400


From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>

>
>On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Tom Leete wrote:
>>
>> I was thinking that kernel/resource.c was a general distributed allocator
of
>> ports, addresses, etc. & that it was also for USB, firewire, whoever
needed
>> such things.
>
>The code in kernel/resource.c indeed _is_ meant to be used for anything.
[...]
>See?
>
> Linus

Thank you, that's all clear to me now. I'm glad I wasn't as wrong as I
feared.

May I suggest that your article, together with your exchange with Roger
Wolff on this topic, would be right at home in /Documentation?

Thanks again,
Tom

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