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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 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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