That's a bit odd, as there has been a tremendous amount of framework code built for supporting various classes of device drivers since 2000, greatly reducing code you'd write or duplicate.
I'm not very in touch with device drivers, but I suspect 'supporting classes of device drivers' vs 'a framework for all device drivers' is at the heart of the disagreement on frameworks here.
No - not really, they're both significantly changed since the old days of linux, in the sense that many additional abstractions have been created for supporting a framework for all device drivers, as well as adding frameworks for supporting different classes of device drivers.
