From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: James Clark <jimwclark@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Driver Model
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:39:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030902223957.GA17283@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309022244.55500.jimwclark@ntlworld.com>
James Clark wrote:
> Would a more rigid 'plugin' interface and the concequent move from mainly
> 'source' modules to binary 'plugins' (still with source-code available for
> all to see) mean that (a) Kernel was smaller
No, it would undoubtedly make the kernel larger and slower.
> I love Linux but this seems to be holding it back...
Most of the authors of Linux would prefer a little holding back, if
the alternative was widespread binary-only drivers that they couldn't
debug or fix, or learn from, and a slower, larger kernel.
Of course we might be mistaken.
But please take a look at other kernels which _do_ offer a rigid
interface to binary plugins. Then ask yourself what social phenomena
created the Linux which is exciting and useful as it is, that makes
you want to write drivers for it now instead of those other kernels.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-02 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 18:43 James Clark
2003-09-02 19:13 ` Robert Love
2003-09-02 20:44 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-03 14:36 ` Stuart MacDonald
2003-09-03 14:52 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-09-03 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 15:13 ` Stuart MacDonald
2003-09-03 15:33 ` Mariusz Zielinski
2003-09-03 15:50 ` Stuart MacDonald
2003-09-03 16:02 ` Mariusz Zielinski
2003-09-03 17:58 ` Stuart MacDonald
2003-09-03 16:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 18:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-03 15:50 ` Mariusz Zielinski
2003-09-03 22:41 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-04 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 15:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-02 21:29 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-09-02 21:44 ` James Clark
2003-09-02 22:05 ` Greg KH
2003-09-02 22:08 ` Robert Love
2003-09-02 22:39 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-09-02 23:52 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 0:20 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-03 17:38 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:19 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 18:15 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-04 12:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-09-03 13:10 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <rtHg.3n0.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <rK5y.1xN.25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-03 18:42 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-03 19:49 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 22:41 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-03 23:11 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-03 23:33 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-04 1:38 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-04 3:01 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-04 14:21 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-04 1:37 ` Andre Hedrick
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