On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Naman Govil namangov@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with the long term goal, but from the point of view of a project in GSoC, is'nt it better for me to implement the block device API first, and then in the course of time think about the generic device interface?
you should do what you think best. Block device APIs are a much-worked-on problem, as are generic device interfaces. The special needs of firmware make them tricky. I prefer generic because it's too easy to work out a block device interface that won't fit into a generic framework -- that's been done, frequently -- but a well designed generic framework will easily accommodate a block device interface -- see Unix or Plan 9.
In other words, you can design a special case that makes doing a good design of the general case almost impossible. That's been done too; see UEFI.
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