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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Clark <jimwclark@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver Model 2 Proposal - Linux Kernel Performance v Usability
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:18:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030903211801.A10695@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309031850.14925.jimwclark@ntlworld.com>; from jimwclark@ntlworld.com on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:53:01PM +0100

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:53:01PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> Following my initial post yesterday please find attached my proposal for a 
> binary 'plugin' interface:
> 
> This is not an attempt to have a Microkernel, or any move away from GNU/OSS 
> software. I believe that sometimes the ultimate goals of stability and 
> portability get lost in the debate on OSS and desire to allow anyone to 
> contribute. It is worth remembering that for every Kernel hacker there must 
> be 1000's of plain users. I believe this proposal would lead to better 
> software and more people using it.

Looks like you're looking for UDI.  Most people on this list don't like
it for various reasons (me included) but you seem to like it.  Since
SCO was the driving factor development probably has slowed down even
more, go and help them!

Don't expect it to ever be merged though..

	http://projectudi.sourceforge.net/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-03 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-03 17:53 Driver Model 2 Proposal - Linux Kernel Performance v Usability James Clark
2003-09-03 17:49 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:23   ` Guillaume Morin
2003-09-04  4:10     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:35   ` Guillaume Morin
2003-09-03 19:30     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:18 ` Greg KH
2003-09-03 18:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-03 18:49 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-09-03 18:58 ` Gábor Lénárt
2003-09-03 20:18 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
     [not found] <1062637356.846.3471.camel@cube>
2003-09-04 20:14 ` James Clark
2003-09-04 20:27   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 21:16     ` James Clark
2003-09-04 21:50       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 22:10       ` insecure
2003-09-04 22:01     ` jdow
2003-09-04 20:29   ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-04 21:12     ` James Clark
2003-09-04 21:40       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-04 21:41       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-04 22:19       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 21:29   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 21:51     ` James Clark
2003-09-04 22:06       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-04 22:10       ` Martin Mares
2003-09-04 22:23       ` Gustav Petersson
2003-09-05 17:52       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-05 18:31         ` James Clark
2003-09-05 18:59           ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-05 19:12           ` Dale P. Smith
2003-09-05 19:45             ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-09-05 19:59           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-05 20:01             ` James Clark
2003-09-05 20:08           ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-05 21:15           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-05 23:19             ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-09-10 20:50     ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-10 20:48       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-10 23:22         ` James Clark
2003-09-10 23:58           ` Greg KH
2003-09-12 20:51         ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-12 20:55           ` Tim Hockin
2003-09-15 11:39           ` Richard B. Johnson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-04 22:41 Chad Kitching
2003-09-05 20:53 Chad Kitching
2003-09-05 23:30 ` Mike Fedyk

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