linux-kernel - Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space?

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Message-ID: <20120226152948.GA19463@polaris.bitmath.org>
Date:	Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:29:48 +0100
From:	"Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@...omail.se>
To:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>
Cc:	Richard Yao <ryao@...stonybrook.edu>,
	Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@...il.com>, Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	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?

> > > changed, is unimportant. Maybe code, like so many other things,
> > > arranges itself in a scale-free critical fashion, which would forever
> 
> "Code arranges" not itself, but people arrange code the best they see
> fit.

You seem to have missed the point of that sentence. Go pick on
somebody else.

> > > userspace join the same tree as well. There is however a frofoundly
> > > political aspect here, which cannot be expressed in terms of
> > > code. Also, in practise, breaking things down into manageable chunks
> > > is usually a good idea in the end.
> 
> Yes, everybody learns that in the first lecture on programming. Please
> sent patches to make actually things better and not just talk. Thank
> you.

I actually do on a regular basis. I wish everybody did.

Thanks.
Henrik
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