Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:35:57 -0400 |
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:40:33 CDT, Chase Venters said: > Work on dbus and HAL should give us good improvements in these areas. One > remaining challenge I see is system configuration - each daemon tends to > adopt its own syntax for configuration, which means that providing a GUI for > novice users to manage these systems means attacking each problem separately > and in full. Now I certainly wouldn't advocate a Windows-style registry, > because I think it's full of obvious problems. Nevertheless, it would be nice > to have some kind of configuration editor abstraction library that had some > sort of syntax definition database to allow for some interesting work on > GUIs.
Anybody who tries to do this without at least understanding the design choices made by AIX's SMIT tool deserves to re-invent it, poorly.
> In any case, I think pretty much all of this work lives outside the kernel.
Amen to that - although the whole hotplug/udev/sysfs aggregation has at least made a semi-sane way to find out from userspace what the kernel thinks is going on...
Are there any drivers out there that don't play nice with sysfs? If so, should a mention of them be added to http://kerneljanitors.org/TODO ?
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