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Should Linux Have a Binary Kernel Driver Layer?

Posted by Zonk on from the abstraction dept.

zerojoker writes "The discussion is not new but was heated up by a blog entry from Greg Kroah-Hartman: Three OSDL Japan members, namely Fujitsu, NEC and Hitachi are pushing for a stable Kernel driver layer/API, so that driver developers wouldn't need to put their drivers into the main kernel tree. GKH has several points against such an idea." What do you think?

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  1. Oh, I'm all for it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux, with the stability of Windows prior to the advent of certified drivers.

  2. Good idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets put it in Kernal 2.7.
    Oh wait... OOPS!

    1. Re:Good idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      OOPS

      subtle...

    2. Re:Good idea! by chphilli · · Score: 4, Funny

      Is that "OOPS, I can't spell kernel?" ;)

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  3. Re:No Thanks! by Speare · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on, can't we see through this Cathedral-driven charade? There's no rational thought behind Intelligent Drivers. It's all just a dogmatic rehash of the same old Closed Source thinking forced upon our Open Source kernel laboratories! I say, send these Intelligent Drivers ideologues back to Kansas where they came from!

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  4. Re:No Thanks! by b1t+r0t · · Score: 3, Funny
    Come on, can't we see through this Cathedral-driven charade? There's no rational thought behind Intelligent Drivers. It's all just a dogmatic rehash of the same old Closed Source thinking forced upon our Open Source kernel laboratories! I say, send these Intelligent Drivers ideologues back to Kansas where they came from!

    What, you want to support Flying Spaghetti Code Drivers or something?

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  5. *I* have an idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Reimplement Linux as a microkernel with user-mode binary drivers!

  6. Re:Stability like that leads to stagnation and dea by Kazoo+the+Clown · · Score: 2, Funny

    One of Linux's great strengths is the flexibility of changing to meet new needs and not being hobbled by rigid backwards compatibility.

    Yeah, let's hobble it with dependency hell instead.