Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750826AbWBFKHP (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 05:07:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750907AbWBFKHP (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 05:07:15 -0500 Received: from smtp-out4.iol.cz ([194.228.2.92]:40672 "EHLO smtp-out4.iol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbWBFKHN (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 05:07:13 -0500 Message-ID: <43E71F75.7000605@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:05:41 +0100 From: Michal Schmidt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Chow Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux drivers management References: <43E71AD7.5070600@shaolinmicro.com> In-Reply-To: <43E71AD7.5070600@shaolinmicro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 805 Lines: 21 David Chow wrote: > Dear maintainers, > > Is there any work in Linux undergoing to separate Linux drivers and the > the main kernel, and manage drivers using a package management system > that only manages kernel drivers and modules? If this can be done, the > kernel maintenance can be simple, and will end-up with a more stable > (less frequent changed) kernel API for drivers, also make every > developers of drivers happy. > > Would like to see that happens . Please read Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt in your copy of Linux source. Michal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/