Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:16:55 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? |
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 09:10:27PM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > I am not complaining about the kernel and its driver structure - on > the contrary. I do, however, see a reason why constructing lower-level > interfaces to userspace may be of benefit. The kernel is growing > tremendously fast. Sooner or later, parts of the present driver > responsibility will have to be split into smaller chunks. Why not > place those chunks outside the kernel itself?
I fail to understand why you think the growth of the kernel will require drivers to be split into chunks in the future. Are we somehow growing faster than is required / needed / wanted and outstripping the size of what we are allowed to take up on machines?
greg k-h
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