Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 May 2002 21:25:33 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] |
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On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:08:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It all tends to boil down to a device driver in the end, and the amount of > support you're willing to give it. Soft realtime can handle the rest. > > Personally, I'm _not_ interested in making device drivers look like > user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just > stupid.
Amen to that. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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