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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>: > > Think useability. On Macintoshes, you configure a kernel by moving > > the equivalents of modules in and out of a system folder. Users tune > > their kernels by moving files around -- no muttering of elaborate > > incantations required. *That's* the direction we should be moving in; > > there is no good technical reason for the process to be anywhere near > > as arcane as it is now. > > We have it better than that already. The distro vendor provides all the > modules and they're automatically loaded on demand - you don't even need to > move them into the system folder. So you're saying the users should be completely lost any time they want to use an upated kernel? -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. -- George Orwell - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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