Argomento: Linux e i device driver
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Older hardware devices, in fact, were cumbersome and difficult to program, and two different hardware devices had little in common even if they were hosted on the same bus. Thus, there was no point in trying to offer a unifying model to the device driver developers.
Things are different now. Bus types such as PCI, put strong demands on the internal design of the hardware devices.
As a consequence, recent hardware devices, even of different classes, sport similar functionalities. Drivers for such devices should typically take care of:
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non capisco quel "put strong" del secondo paragrafo (che è il più importante)