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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. Re:No Thanks! by GigsVT · · Score: 1, Troll

    While I appreciate your work, if my hardware drivers worked as well as wine (i.e. rarely 100% correct), I'd probably stop using linux.

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