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Message-ID: <20120224224930.GA5684@polaris.bitmath.org> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:49:30 +0100 From: "Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@...omail.se> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>, Jidong Xiao <jidong.xiao@...il.com>, Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:20:34PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:14:59PM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > > The main issue that set me off has been sufficiently diluted in the > > (selective) discussion so as to no longer make sense as a reply: At > > some point, in-tree or out-of-tree will no longer be distinguishable, > > and the question is if/when/why something would/should happen as a > > consequence. A matter of politics, if you will. It seemed like an > > honest question starting this thread, and I think it is fair to keep > > it in mind as such. > > If something happens to require such a change in the future, we will > deal with it, at that time. Remember the rule, "Linux is evolution, not > intelligent design." Who "we" is is exactly the point. For the not-so-important record, evolution does actually create intelligent designs. Thanks, Henrik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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