From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan@buzzard.me.uk>
Cc: Charles@schwieters.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, john@neggie.net
Subject: Re: experimental patch for toshiba_acpi
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:51:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090225165152.GA5981@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1235578705.4770.57.camel@penguin.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk>
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:18:25PM +0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> Because it makes far more sense to have a user mode program to drive the
> features, and for the kernel to provide the necessary thin layer to
> access the features.
It makes sense for the kernel to provide a consistent abstraction of
hardware functionality where possible. Almost every kernel driver could
be rewritten in userspace - that doesn't make it a good idea.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-25 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-25 14:54 experimental patch for toshiba_acpi Charles
2009-02-25 15:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-25 16:18 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2009-02-25 16:51 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-02-25 17:12 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2009-02-25 17:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-25 17:53 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2009-02-25 17:59 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-25 20:18 ` Charles
2009-02-26 0:22 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2009-02-26 8:39 ` Richard Hughes
2009-02-26 10:34 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2009-02-26 12:52 ` Richard Hughes
2009-02-26 13:27 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2009-02-26 13:59 ` Richard Hughes
2009-02-26 15:49 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2009-02-25 17:33 ` Azael Avalos
2009-02-26 13:12 ` John Belmonte
2009-02-26 14:03 ` Richard Hughes
2009-02-26 15:51 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2009-02-26 16:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-27 16:49 ` Richard Hughes
2009-02-27 17:18 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2009-02-28 15:19 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-13 1:17 ` Len Brown
2009-03-14 0:37 ` Charles
2009-03-14 7:02 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-03-14 12:05 ` Matthew Garrett
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2009-02-27 21:15 Andrey Borzenkov
2009-02-27 21:31 ` Charles
2009-02-28 6:13 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-02-28 18:00 ` Charles
2009-03-01 7:00 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-03-01 10:31 ` Charles
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