Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:54:18 +0200 (MEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) |
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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] szonyi calin wrote: > And with new devepment model this expenses will be passed to the > end user when the kernel will not be stable enough and will > crash. Do you you remember the 8k vs 4k stack problem for > Nvidia binary kernel module ?
You want a stable kernel, but you also want to rely on binary-only kernel modules?
The Linux kernel people cannot guarantee stability with binary-only kernel modules. And the Linux kernel people cannot solve that problem...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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