Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932411Ab2BXWtd (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:49:33 -0500 Received: from smtprelay-b21.telenor.se ([195.54.99.212]:49851 "EHLO smtprelay-b21.telenor.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932238Ab2BXWtc (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:49:32 -0500 X-SENDER-IP: [85.230.168.211] X-LISTENER: [smtp.bredband.net] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvuEAH4TSE9V5qjTPGdsb2JhbABDiW2oGwOBBBkBAQEBNzSBcwEBBTocIxAIAxguFCUKGogdt3sTikqCYgsDDw0CDxUCAwMChS0OAwyDD2MElTqFbY0E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,478,1325458800"; d="scan'208";a="50181498" From: "Henrik Rydberg" Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:49:30 +0100 To: Greg KH Cc: "Ted Ts'o" , Guenter Roeck , Jidong Xiao , Kernel development list Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? Message-ID: <20120224224930.GA5684@polaris.bitmath.org> References: <20120224191535.GA4505@polaris.bitmath.org> <20120224192643.GB24120@kroah.com> <20120224201027.GA4859@polaris.bitmath.org> <20120224201655.GA5994@kroah.com> <20120224203715.GA4995@polaris.bitmath.org> <20120224205651.GA13333@kroah.com> <20120224212238.GA5178@polaris.bitmath.org> <20120224213027.GB15735@thunk.org> <20120224221459.GA5254@polaris.bitmath.org> <20120224222034.GB28198@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120224222034.GB28198@kroah.com> 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: 1133 Lines: 26 On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:20:34PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:14:59PM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > > The main issue that set me off has been sufficiently diluted in the > > (selective) discussion so as to no longer make sense as a reply: At > > some point, in-tree or out-of-tree will no longer be distinguishable, > > and the question is if/when/why something would/should happen as a > > consequence. A matter of politics, if you will. It seemed like an > > honest question starting this thread, and I think it is fair to keep > > it in mind as such. > > If something happens to require such a change in the future, we will > deal with it, at that time. Remember the rule, "Linux is evolution, not > intelligent design." Who "we" is is exactly the point. For the not-so-important record, evolution does actually create intelligent designs. Thanks, Henrik -- 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/