Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:26:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:26:02 -0500 Received: from 513.holly-springs.nc.us ([216.27.31.173]:6171 "EHLO 513.holly-springs.nc.us") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:25:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3A355840.CFDF8810@holly-springs.nc.us> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:42:08 -0500 From: Michael Rothwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre25 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Ford CC: Chris Lattner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, orbit-list@gnome.org, korbit-cvs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit In-Reply-To: <3A31B8CC.7030604@kalifornia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ben Ford wrote: > Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl??? Well, Perl, I don't know. But the USB 'driver' for my Canon PowerShot S20 runs in userspace. Seems a safer place to do things. -M - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/