From: Spider <spider@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:06:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031022220636.712e5132.spider@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310221247.36048.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:47:35 -0700
"C. Brewer" <cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> wrote:
> Truly, it's too bad that external kernel modules couldn't be less
> dependent on the version of the kernel they need to run on, and put
> them in a separate place entirely, to be called by any kernel:(
Well that would require a microkernel architecture, which Linux is not.
Linux is a macrokernel with support for separate parts, but a module is
extremely tied to the internals of the kernel, and unless Linus has a
big change of mind, it won't change from this either.
//Spider
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-22 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 12:48 [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-10-21 12:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-10-21 15:39 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 16:25 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-10-21 17:44 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 20:15 ` Grant Goodyear
2003-10-22 3:11 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 20:53 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-10-21 22:25 ` Spider
2003-10-22 3:44 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 8:15 ` Chris Smith
2003-10-22 8:17 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-10-22 18:27 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 18:46 ` Brian Jackson
2003-10-22 19:23 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-10-22 19:47 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 20:06 ` Spider [this message]
2003-10-22 10:40 ` Spider
2003-10-22 18:07 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 19:01 ` Spider
2003-10-22 11:20 ` Patrick Lauer
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