From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 00:25:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 00:25:33 -0400 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:23504 "EHLO bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 00:25:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 21:25:33 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Karim Yaghmour , Andrea Arcangeli , Dan Kegel , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Christoph Rohland , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Message-ID: <20020524212533.A22643@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Linus Torvalds , Karim Yaghmour , Andrea Arcangeli , Dan Kegel , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Christoph Rohland , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3CEF0911.425C00E7@opersys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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