On 10/3/19 3:00 AM, Greg KH wrote:
USB4 spec, and the patches posted to start adding support for that to the kernel. No "math" in there at all other than very simple stuff.
And no one can say that USB for is not "serious", so I agree with Vladis, a deep mathmatical background is not needed for almost all of the kernel. It's just simple C code, nothing to be afraid of.
I wouldn't call that C code basic. Regardless, showing an example of a driver that doesn't need math, and it might if you understood the high level math, and your not aware of it, but predictive branching would need it. You can not calculate simple interest efficiently without calculus. This repeadely ends up being an issue of "if I don't know it, I don't need it", which is wrong. More math helps you every time. Math is advanced logic. I can't tell you how many times I see folks brute force their way to solutions that they should be using integration. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013