Messages in this thread | | | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) | Date | 09 Nov 2000 09:43:18 +0100 |
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Hi Larry,
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:44:11AM +0100, Christoph Rohland wrote: >> *Are you crazy?* =:-0 >> >> Proposing proprietary kernel extensions to establish an enterprise >> kernel? No thanks! > > Actually, I think this idea is a good one. I'm a big opponent of > all the big iron feature bloat getting into the kernel, and if SGI > et al want to go off and do their own thing, that's fine with me. > As long as Linus continues in his current role, I doubt much of > anything that the big iron boys do will really make it back into the > generic kernel. Linus is really smart about that stuff, are least > it seems so to me; he seems to be well aware that 99.9999% of the > hardware in the world isn't big iron and never will be, so something > approximating 99% of the effort should be going towards the common > platforms, not the uncommon ones.
If we would not allow binary only modules I would not have such a big problem with that...
I understand that the one size fits all approach has some limitations if you want to run on PDAs up to big iron. But a framework to overload core kernel functions with modules smells a lot of binary only, closed source, vendor specific Linux on high end machines.
And then I don't see the value of Linux anymore.
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