Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu> | Subject | Re: [RFD] New driver system (was Adding new syscalls via modules) | Date | 05 Jul 1999 14:01:04 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Maryanchick <Sasha@GDev.msk.ru> writes: > Some examples: > 1. ext2compr, Undelete Tools, KGI,... are patches.
- I've never heard of a kernel patch for undelete-tools. - ext2compr is a patch to ext2fs which is itself a module, so it's hard to see how improving the extensibility of the kernel will help. - KGI... can't it be made a module as well ?
> A lot of virtual drivers: CD-ROM cache, HDD encryption, > web acceleration, ... > Most of these features can not be in full volume > implemented in Linux without the evil patching the kernel.
CD-ROM cache amounts to CacheFS which can be made as a module. HDD exists just fine. web-acceleration ??
I'm not trying to say that more extendibility wouldn't be good, but that there already is a good amount of flexibility and that what is missing is not only/necessarily missing in the core itself. If ext2fs could have demand-loaded extension modules it might allow to have ext2compr as a ext2fs-module, but that won't just come for free.
Stefan
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