Subject: Re: how facilitate custom driver development: the cdevsw/conf.c problem
To: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/08/1997 12:55:33 
Martin wrote:
> Which is particular cool: you can make all the driver interface functions
> static and just let the structure be global visible!
> 
> Stops namespace polution, IMHO.

Yes. Unfortunatly, only protects the _namespace_, not the _static variables_.

The result is that you're kind of handicapped in the debugger, but need to
debug nearly the same problems.

Regards,
	is