Linux Kernel To Have Stable Userspace Drive

liquidat writes "Linus Torvalds has included patches into the mainline tree which implement a stable userspace driver API into the Linux kernel. The stable driver API was already announced a year ago by Greg Kroah-Hartman. The last patch to Linus' tree included the new API elements. The idea is to make life easier for driver developers: 'This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself. It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to process interrupts and control memory accesses.'"

Comments

Re:Here's a better idea

[wellingj]

No one is stopping you from implementing it yourself and submitting it to the main line.

Re:Better drivers and more of them

[Blakey Rat]

Maybe it's about reducing cost so they can, you know, stay in business? So that rabid foaming-mouth open source zealots like you have wireless cards at all.

Sure they COULD make a different card model for each country and ship each model only to that country. But when their competitors don't, they'd go out of business. This is called "reality"... you might want to get in touch with it.