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Should Linux Have a Binary Kernel Driver Layer? 944

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @03:45PM from the abstraction dept.

zerojoker writes "The discussion is not new but was heated up by a blog entry from Greg Kroah-Hartman: Three OSDL Japan members, namely Fujitsu, NEC and Hitachi are pushing for a stable Kernel driver layer/API, so that driver developers wouldn't need to put their drivers into the main kernel tree. GKH has several points against such an idea." What do you think?

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Oh, I'm all for it. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @03:47PM (#13981316)

Linux, with the stability of Windows prior to the advent of certified drivers.

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Good idea! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @03:48PM (#13981336)

Lets put it in Kernal 2.7.
Oh wait... OOPS!

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Re:No Thanks! (Score:5, Funny)

by Speare ( 84249 ) writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @03:56PM (#13981432) Homepage Journal

Come on, can't we see through this Cathedral-driven charade? There's no rational thought behind Intelligent Drivers. It's all just a dogmatic rehash of the same old Closed Source thinking forced upon our Open Source kernel laboratories! I say, send these Intelligent Drivers ideologues back to Kansas where they came from!

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Re:Good idea! (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @03:59PM (#13981472)

OOPS

subtle...

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Re:No Thanks! (Score:4, Funny)

by b1t r0t ( 216468 ) writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @04:01PM (#13981495)

Come on, can't we see through this Cathedral-driven charade? There's no rational thought behind Intelligent Drivers. It's all just a dogmatic rehash of the same old Closed Source thinking forced upon our Open Source kernel laboratories! I say, send these Intelligent Drivers ideologues back to Kansas where they came from!
What, you want to support Flying Spaghetti Code Drivers or something?

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*I* have an idea! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @04:41PM (#13981965)

Reimplement Linux as a microkernel with user-mode binary drivers!

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Re:Stability like that leads to stagnation and dea (Score:3, Funny)

by Kazoo the Clown ( 644526 ) writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @04:42PM (#13981971)

One of Linux's great strengths is the flexibility of changing to meet new needs and not being hobbled by rigid backwards compatibility.

Yeah, let's hobble it with dependency hell instead.

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Re:Good idea! (Score:4, Funny)

by chphilli ( 885315 ) writes: <chphilli+slashdotNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @04:58PM (#13982162) Homepage Journal

Is that "OOPS, I can't spell kernel?" ;)

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