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SubjectRe: Portable binary drivers (was Re: Linux headed for disaster?)
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> I am confident that a solution to support binary loadable modules will
> be accepted by Linus and Alan -- if it does not add overhead to the
> kernel.

It must also be running in a way that it cannot trigger a bug in existing
kernel code, otherwise we have binaries triggering stuff that we cannot
debug. That is what makes it hard.

If netscape Oopses the kernel as a user then I know we screwed up, because
we have a defined interface and it wasnt running as root. A driver is
totally different, it might causes oopses, application funnies - anything
and anywhere in the kernel.

Alan


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