Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932090AbWLNI47 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:56:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932093AbWLNI47 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:56:59 -0500 Received: from postfix2-g20.free.fr ([212.27.60.43]:36478 "EHLO postfix2-g20.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932090AbWLNI46 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:56:58 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 364 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:56:58 EST From: Duncan Sands To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:49:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de References: <20061213195226.GA6736@kroah.com> <20061213203113.GA9026@suse.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612140949.43270.duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 14 > I'm really not convinced about the user-mode thing unless somebody can > show me a good reason for it. Not just some "wouldn't it be nice" kind of > thing. A real, honest-to-goodness reason that we actually _want_ to see > used. Qemu? It would be nice if emulators could directly drive hardware: useful for reverse engineering windows drivers for example. Duncan. - 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/