Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752432AbWCFVKJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:10:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752434AbWCFVKJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:10:09 -0500 Received: from brmea-mail-1.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.31]:63215 "EHLO brmea-mail-1.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752435AbWCFVKH (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:10:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:09:52 -0800 From: Michael Bender Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] Re: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded In-reply-to: <20060306170542.GB8142@kroah.com> To: Greg KH Cc: s.schmidt@avm.de, kkeil@suse.de, libusb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org, opensuse-factory@opensuse.org, torvalds@osdl.org Reply-to: Michael.Bender@Sun.COM Message-id: <440CA520.8070507@sun.com> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <20060217230004.GA15492@kroah.com> <20060306170542.GB8142@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050322) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1117 Lines: 27 Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:47:43PM +0100, s.schmidt@avm.de wrote: > >>Compared to other operating systems, such as Mac OS, BeOS, >>Windows etc., Linux is walking a solitary path with the "user mode only" >>shift. One gets the impression, that legal concerns are leading Linux to a >>technically suboptimal/isolated solution. > > No, right now, Linux has the best latency numbers _by far_ than any > other operating system, so we can move stuff to userspace. > > And again, it's your legal issues that are forcing you that way, if you > change that, putting everything in the kernel would be fine :) (Since this came to me via the libusb list, and we've kind of gone past libusb-specific-related discussion, I thought I'd add another question to the thread). What's the rationale behind the dichotomy between userspace and kernel licensing models? mike - 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/