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Dâniel Fraga wrote: > Well, I'd like to see Linus' opinion about this, because while > programmers keep discussing this, users are waiting forever... so if > Markus has a concrete and better solution, why don't use it? > > And as far as I know, Markus is the programmer who is most > interested in this code. I didn't see anybody else in the world doing > his work... > > And I always had a impression that if most of things could be > done in user space, than it will be better (for example, devfs -> udev). > Why do everything in kernel space? Lets put *less* code in the kernel, > not more code. And besides that, code in user space can be changed > easily. Code in kernel has to wait a long time for Linus to accept (*if* > he accepts). > The problem with user space drivers is that it encourages binary only drivers, drivers which work only for a limited set of hardware, and other means to reduce choice for the user. There's a reason why binary modules make the kernel tainted, I have to feel that this is more and worse of same. Linus will have an opinion, no doubt. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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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