We're seeing more and more stuff getting booted out of the kernel to initrd as time goes by, and new drivers are under intense pressure to get the hell out of kernel mode for init. So yes, Linux learned this lesson too late, but it's not "stay the course" even for incumbent drivers.
The weird thing is that if Microsoft had just decided to go all-TPM for 64-bit Vista and then only-64-bit for Vista+1, their alien overlords would still win and nobody would have spooked the suckers for a product cycle.
Oh, and as you can tell from my username, I *will* kill you.
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We're seeing more and more stuff getting booted out of the kernel to initrd as time goes by, and new drivers are under intense pressure to get the hell out of kernel mode for init. So yes, Linux learned this lesson too late, but it's not "stay the course" even for incumbent drivers. The weird thing is that if Microsoft had just decided to go all-TPM for 64-bit Vista and then only-64-bit for Vista+1, their alien overlords would still win and nobody would have spooked the suckers for a product cycle. Oh, and as you can tell from my username, I *will* kill you.