Dâniel Fraga wrote:
The problem with user space drivers is that it encourages binary only drivers, drivers which work only for a limited set of hardware, and other means to reduce choice for the user. There's a reason why binary modules make the kernel tainted, I have to feel that this is more and worse of same.Well, I'd like to see Linus' opinion about this, because while programmers keep discussing this, users are waiting forever... so if Markus has a concrete and better solution, why don't use it?And as far as I know, Markus is the programmer who is most interested in this code. I didn't see anybody else in the world doing his work... And I always had a impression that if most of things could be done in user space, than it will be better (for example, devfs -> udev). Why do everything in kernel space? Lets put *less* code in the kernel, not more code. And besides that, code in user space can be changed easily. Code in kernel has to wait a long time for Linus to accept (*if* he accepts).
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