From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267469AbUGWQHk (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:07:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267830AbUGWQHF (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:07:05 -0400 Received: from web52906.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.39.183]:43698 "HELO web52906.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267804AbUGWPuq (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:50:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20040723155045.19770.qmail@web52906.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:50:45 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?szonyi=20calin?= Subject: Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Paul Jackson , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , corbet@lwn.net, Linux Kernel Development In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit : > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] szonyi calin wrote: > > And with new devepment model this expenses will be passed to > the > > end user when the kernel will not be stable enough and will > > crash. Do you you remember the 8k vs 4k stack problem for > > Nvidia binary kernel module ? > > You want a stable kernel, but you also want to rely on > binary-only kernel > modules? > No. I wasn't clear on that one. My example was wrong. AFAIK the 8k/4k stack kernel problem were causing problems for other people too. > The Linux kernel people cannot guarantee stability with > binary-only kernel > modules. And the Linux kernel people cannot solve that > problem... > I underestand that. However hpa told me that the stability of the 2.6 kernel will not suffer. > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > Calin ===== -- A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in. Kim Alm on a.s.r. Vous manquez d’espace pour stocker vos mails ? Yahoo! Mail vous offre GRATUITEMENT 100 Mo ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.benefits.yahoo.com/ Le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger est arrivé ! Découvrez toutes les nouveautés pour dialoguer instantanément avec vos amis. A télécharger gratuitement sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com