Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757950Ab2BXRSF (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:18:05 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:35430 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754041Ab2BXRSD (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:18:03 -0500 Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of gregkh@linuxfoundation.org designates 10.68.222.194 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:13:44 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jidong Xiao Cc: Kernel development list Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? Message-ID: <20120224171344.GA9485@kroah.com> References: <20120224153811.GA16535@kroah.com> <20120224165448.GA8751@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 20 On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:06:54PM -0500, Jidong Xiao wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >> As to "Linux isn't a microkernel", even though the debate between > >> Linux and microkernel have never stopped, > > > > Um, who is having such a debate? ?We aren't, so I don't think the debate > > has ever started. > > > > Here is the classic debate between Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate That was 20 years ago, to assume that anyone rational was still having that debate today is insane. -- 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/