Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Aug 2002 03:40:19 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [2.6] The List, pass #2 |
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Hi!
> > > > o Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel > > > > > > I really hope this means drivers MAY be used as modules, not MUST. There > > > is some overhead in doing things as modules, and added complexity usually > > > means "harder to debug." Particularly with modules where there can be > > > corner conditions and races on [un]load. > > > > Bill, > > Several people (IIRC including Alan Cox) would like to make many of the > > modules (network cards and scsi drivers for example) mandatory, requiring > > use of an initrd (or it's replacement) on all boot setups. > > As far as I know, they plan on doing things like > disk partition detection outside the kernel, i.e. in > a userspace program. That clearly require > a initrd (or similiar) for anybody with root > on a partitioned disk. > > Lots of other bootup initialization, like DHCP, > might move to userspace as well. This gives a smaller > and safer kernel.
Why *safer*? Partition (,DHCP,..) code is ran once at boot. It is hard for it to harm security. Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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