Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jan 2003 02:10:05 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Honest does not pay here ... |
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On Tue, 07 Jan 2003, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > In very semplicistic words: > > In 2.5/2.6 kernels, non GPL modules have a big > > penalty, because they cannot create their own queue, but have to use a default > > one. > > I may be showing my ignorance here (won't be the first time) but this makes > me wonder if Linux could provide a way to do "user level drivers". I.e., > drivers which ran in kernel mode but in the context of a process and had > to talk to the real kernel via pipes or whatever. It's a fair amount of > plumbing but could have the advantage of being a more stable interface > for the drivers.
Some parts of the kernel have opened up for user space, think the user-space file system efforts as one example.
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