Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751294Ab2BZP3m (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:29:42 -0500 Received: from smtprelay-b22.telenor.se ([195.54.99.213]:47005 "EHLO smtprelay-b22.telenor.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818Ab2BZP3l (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:29:41 -0500 X-SENDER-IP: [85.230.168.211] X-LISTENER: [smtp.bredband.net] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Alq2ACpPSk9V5qjTPGdsb2JhbABDiX6oJwOBBRkBAQEBNzSBcwEBBAE6HCMQCANGFCUKGogUCbZsE4pXgjgpAgoBBgsCBgcMFAMDAwKEQwgBATsKCRIKgw5jBJU8hW2NAw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,485,1325458800"; d="scan'208";a="274601569" From: "Henrik Rydberg" Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:29:48 +0100 To: Bernd Petrovitsch Cc: Richard Yao , Bobby Powers , "Ted Ts'o" , Greg KH , Guenter Roeck , Jidong Xiao , Kernel development list Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? Message-ID: <20120226152948.GA19463@polaris.bitmath.org> References: <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> <20120226104701.GA18152@polaris.bitmath.org> <1330266224.616.48.camel@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1330266224.616.48.camel@thorin> 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: 1037 Lines: 27 > > > changed, is unimportant. Maybe code, like so many other things, > > > arranges itself in a scale-free critical fashion, which would forever > > "Code arranges" not itself, but people arrange code the best they see > fit. You seem to have missed the point of that sentence. Go pick on somebody else. > > > userspace join the same tree as well. There is however a frofoundly > > > political aspect here, which cannot be expressed in terms of > > > code. Also, in practise, breaking things down into manageable chunks > > > is usually a good idea in the end. > > Yes, everybody learns that in the first lecture on programming. Please > sent patches to make actually things better and not just talk. Thank > you. I actually do on a regular basis. I wish everybody did. 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/