Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Portable binary drivers (was Re: Linux headed for disaster?) | Date | Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:30:23 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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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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