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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. Absolutely... by PhineusJWhoopee · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...and let's call it Kernel 2.7. ed