From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29938 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Oct 2003 20:06:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31550 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2003 20:06:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:06:36 +0200 From: Spider To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20031022220636.712e5132.spider@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310221247.36048.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> References: <4866.146.176.63.67.1066740482.squirrel@mail.codewordt.co.uk> <200310221127.08345.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <200310222124.01388.pauldv@gentoo.org> <200310221247.36048.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> Organization: Chaotic X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5-gtk2-20030906 (GTK+ 2.2.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="9qJZ?idNO96=.EG," Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x X-Archives-Salt: ed1c6d5d-4e1e-424b-83a1-fb1fe44f9284 X-Archives-Hash: 0d04ebd9bca7a12d8fb013b40d1dde6b --9qJZ?idNO96=.EG, Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit begin quote On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:47:35 -0700 "C. Brewer" 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 -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end --9qJZ?idNO96=.EG, Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/luNPZS9CZTi033kRAoRVAJ9Iw/5M6nuAQBrahEr6ccZT7rqP0QCgiouD GymGjurB0/ToQ0cU6OHijtA= =5tGU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9qJZ?idNO96=.EG,--