Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:09:03 +0530 | From | Chirag Kantharia <> | Subject | Re: Idea for new kernel configurator |
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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 12:17:24PM -0400, Jason Hihn wrote: | dabbled in the kernel other than applying some patches. Recently at work | I've had to develop an application which would allow a user to configure | a device, even if that device was invented after the application was | written. This is done extracting information (an XML file) out of the | device which allows the software to create an interface for configuring | the device... and that's where my idea comes from. | (Quick, someone document this before it is patented!)
One question: how do you plan to "extract" information from the device without a device driver?
| If the linux kernel was represented by XML objects in documents, then | the same idea as above could be applied and extended. The user interface | could be 2 windows, one 'in-the-kernel' pool and one 'not-in-the-kernel'
True, XML technology can be applied to a lot of scenarios. Kernel's not one of them. The objectives while applying XML and that of designing a super fast, scalable kernel are different.
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