From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
Cc: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:31:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001109133136.B747@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80256991.007632DE.00@d06mta06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> <3A09C725.6CFA0EE2@holly-springs.nc.us> <qwwn1f9lhdg.fsf@sap.com> <20001108235312.H22781@work.bitmover.com> <qwwzoj9k02h.fsf@sap.com> <3A0A968B.85A6770E@holly-springs.nc.us>
In-Reply-To: <3A0A968B.85A6770E@holly-springs.nc.us>; from "Michael Rothwell" on 2000-11-09T07:20:27
On 2000-11-09T07:20:27,
Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us> said:
> > I understand that the one size fits all approach has some limitations
> > if you want to run on PDAs up to big iron. But a framework to overload
> > core kernel functions with modules smells a lot of binary only, closed
> > source, vendor specific Linux on high end machines.
>
> Since Linux is GPL, how would you stop this?
Christoph / SAP is in a rather good position to stop that being supported by
vendors...
> Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of Linux
> over other OSes is the GPL.
And that is why that has to govern the kernel and its modules as far as
possible.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
Development HA
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Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-08 20:31 [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) richardj_moore
2000-11-08 21:35 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-09 7:44 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-09 7:53 ` Larry McVoy
2000-11-09 8:08 ` Andre Hedrick
2000-11-09 8:43 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-09 12:20 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-09 12:31 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2000-11-09 12:40 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-09 13:02 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-09 13:30 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-09 13:39 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-09 17:19 ` Mike Coleman
2000-11-09 17:27 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-10 11:42 ` Martin Dalecki
2000-11-09 13:40 ` Marco Colombo
2000-11-10 8:44 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-09 12:50 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-09 16:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-11-10 8:42 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-09 14:28 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-11-10 15:07 ` Matti Aarnio
2000-11-10 15:24 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-13 21:56 ` Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel Josue Emmanuel Amaro
2000-11-14 7:49 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2000-11-14 18:33 ` lamont
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-09 7:43 [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) richardj_moore
2000-11-09 11:24 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-09 12:25 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-09 12:30 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2000-11-09 12:46 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-09 13:35 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-09 13:43 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-09 14:23 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-11-09 12:50 ` Paul Jakma
2000-11-09 12:53 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-09 13:39 ` Paul Jakma
2000-11-09 14:06 ` Marco Colombo
2000-11-09 14:14 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-11-09 14:26 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-09 14:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-09 20:24 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-11-09 13:31 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-09 14:02 Jesse Pollard
2000-11-10 10:57 richardj_moore
2000-11-10 13:45 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-10 13:51 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-10 14:00 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-10 14:37 ` David Lang
2000-11-10 10:57 richardj_moore
2000-11-10 10:57 richardj_moore
2000-11-10 11:17 richardj_moore
2000-11-10 11:41 richardj_moore
2000-11-10 16:24 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-11-10 16:37 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-10 18:36 ` Matt D. Robinson
2000-11-11 0:12 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-11-11 3:29 ` Matt D. Robinson
2000-11-11 4:57 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-11 17:58 ` tytso
2000-11-13 10:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-11-11 21:48 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2000-11-11 22:12 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-11-10 16:54 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-10 16:08 richardj_moore
2000-11-10 18:42 richardj_moore
2000-11-10 19:31 richardj_moore
2000-11-12 23:27 richardj_moore
2000-11-13 10:38 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-14 3:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-13 5:52 richardj_moore
2000-11-14 1:34 richardj_moore
2000-11-15 15:22 richardj_moore
2000-11-15 15:24 richardj_moore
2000-11-15 18:20 ` Matt D. Robinson
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