From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:49:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C85E627.1030800@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16iPUx-0004vD-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>>I intend to kill the largely overdesigned taskfile stuff. It's broken
>>by design to provide this micro level of device access to *anybody*.
>>Operating systems should try to present the functionality of devices
>>in a convenient way to the user and not just mapp it directly to
>>user space.
>>
>
> Martin - please go and use a macintosh for 8 weeks then come back. The
> unix philosophy is make the simple things easy make the complex possible.
Add "and do as much in user-space" in esp. if the stuff is anyway only
suitable for root and we agree. My main objection is just
the way the driver commands are exposed to user space and the
way they are validated in kernel space.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-06 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-05 7:54 [PATCH] per-cpu areas Rusty Russell
2002-03-05 10:51 ` [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16 Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 11:07 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-05 11:28 ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-05 11:54 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 12:04 ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-05 12:09 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 0:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 9:51 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 11:48 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 0:34 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-05 12:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-03-05 12:36 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 12:35 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-06 0:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-05 12:47 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-03-05 12:52 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 1:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 8:56 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-06 9:43 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 0:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 10:15 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 11:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-03-05 11:51 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 21:19 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-03-05 21:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-05 21:46 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-03-06 9:19 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 1:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 9:45 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 0:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 9:15 ` benh
2002-03-06 11:07 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 11:12 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-06 11:59 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 12:02 ` Meelis Roos
2002-03-06 12:11 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 16:01 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-06 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-06 17:00 ` benh
2002-03-06 9:49 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
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2002-03-06 13:46 Ronnie Sahlberg
2002-03-13 15:55 Rick A. Hohensee
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